Snoop more, share less – Home Office spurns EU advice: “ Databases not safe, says database-loving gov Government responses to two outwardly unrelated bits of EU policy go a long way to explain what it…
(Via Techdirt.) Andrew Cuomo’s Blueprint For How Gov’t Can Get ISPs To Censor Content: “It looks like NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has put forth a nice blueprint for how politicians can ‘censor’ online content…
BT slams bandwidth brakes on all subscribers: You’re all hogs in their eyes BT is throttling all of its broadband customers’ bandwidth at peak times, not just heavy users, according to independent monitoring data.… (Via…
Internet chat more likely slander than libel, says High Court: “Defamation on internet bulletin boards is more like slander than libel, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Eady said that bulletin board discussions…
UK retailers ‘unprepared’ for TK Maxx-style hack: “UK retailers are woefully unprepared for the kind of attack that was perpetrated on the US-based owner of the discount clothing chain TK Maxx, security experts said today.”…
Chaos aims to crack China’s firewall: “Environment, science & technology: Danny Bradbury on how a group of hackers is working to bypass the Great Firewall of China” (Via Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews…
Social network sites ‘flout their own ban on underage users’: “Hundreds of thousands of children aged between 8 and 12 are using Facebook, Bebo and other social networking sites in clear breach of their age-restriction…