UK.gov dishes out £19m for comms snoop data silos: “ Rising cash outlay opens telco doors for plod, spooks The UK government has given communications providers almost £19m in the last four years under anti-terror…
German Olympic Chief under Fire: Politicians Allege Official ‘Trivialized’ Chinese Internet Censorship: “The chief of the German Olympic Committee has come under fire for comments critics say trivialize China’s move last week to block journalists’…
Feds Charge 11 in Breaches at TJ Maxx, OfficeMax, DSW, Others: A Secret Service investigation wraps up every major retail network breach in the last five years. See further US charges 11 in biggest ID…
Internet firms agree to ‘code of conduct’ in China: “ Just days before the Olympic torch will reach Beijing, Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft say they are close to an agreement on a code…
Durbin Says Internet Giants Close to Agreement on Code of Conduct (8-4-2008) Monday, August 4, 2008 [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that a number of the largest American internet companies,…
AU – New Filter Test by Australian Government Shows Filter Effectiveness: “(Filtering Facts) The Australian Communications and Media Authority released a report on Closed environment testing of ISP-level internet content filtering. This report presents the…
I have reason to believe that access to Dailymotion is blocked in Turkey because of an intellectual property infringement (distribution of pirated content) subject to Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, supplemental article…
Congress quizzes world+dog over data pimping: “ Phorm letter US Congressman Ed Markey and his anti-data-pimping brigade are back on the warpath.… “ (Via The Register – Public Sector.)
Users should check this in the UK too even though it is no secret that major ISPs throttle their network….. New ‘Switzerland’ Software Exposes Bandwidth-Throttling ISPs: “Net neutrality advocate group Electronic Frontier Foundation releases a…
Web firms should screen content, says Parliamentary committee: “Websites which accept user-generated content should do more to screen out content that might be harmful to the public, a Parliamentary committee has warned. Sites should also…