EU – Commission welcomes European Parliament’s strong support for a new Safer Internet Programme: “(RAPID) The European Parliament cast an overwhelmingly positive vote on the report drafted by MEP Roberta Angelilli which supports the launch…
Advocate General rejects Ireland’s data retention objections: “The European Union’s Data Retention Directive was not procedurally flawed and should not be repealed, an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Ireland’s…
Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks: “ Trojanised Home Sec comes home to infect Parliament Is the UK Government about to turn world class hacker? It’s going to have to if the Germans…
German privacy watchdogs agree social networking ground rules: “Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people’s use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a…
U.S. Identity Theft Convictions Up 26 Percent, Feds Say: “Identity theft convictions in the United States increased 26 percent in 2007 from the year before, the Bush administration reported Tuesday. Still, 1.6 million complaints of…
BBC News: Porn protesters hit Westminster Tuesday, 21 October 2008 Models wearing chains, stockings and gags have been led around Westminster in protest at laws to make owning “extreme pornography” illegal. From next year, possession…
Plug Pulled on Hamas’ YouTube Ripoff | Danger Room from Wired.com By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 15, 2008 | 4:44:00 PM A few weeks ago, Western intelligence officials discovered that the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas had…
Beware anyone called A.Nony Mouse | Hugo Rifkind – Times Online October 17, 2008 Beware anyone called A.Nony Mouse Maybe ‘a Whitehall source’ is not a real name Hugo Rifkind So I was reading about…
Apparently “Children are just a few clicks away from innocently stumbling across upsetting or even dangerous pictures and films” and so why not regulate the Internet for all of us? I suspect we will see…
Since the Turkish Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publications came into force in November 2007, several websites were blocked by…