ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atatürk 13 April 2009, Monday, TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL The Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) has moved to block access to Google Sites due to content it…
Amazon Says Error Removed Listings: “A computer error that caused thousands of books on Amazon.com to lose their sales rankings led to cries of censorship from some critics. (Via NYT > Technology.)
Whitehall’s got Phorm In light of criticism from the EU, will the UK government enact a new law on internet privacy or simply brazen it out once again? Nothing is going well for the Phorm…
U.K. Attacks Extreme Porn: “Recently, the U.K. has begun a clampdown on ‘extreme porn.’ Meanwhile, across the rest of Europe, various countries are limbering up to clamp down on adults viewing what they deem to…
Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what?: “ Setting sail for the Supreme Court The four men behind BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay were handed stiff sentences of one year each this morning and ordered…
BT blocks up to 40,000 child porn pages per day: “ Cleanfeed busy Between 35,000 and 40,000 attempts to access child pornography sites via BT Retail’s broadband network are blocked every day, it was revealed…
Bush-era NSA wiretap violations exposed: “ US hawks not amused The New York Times has broken the latest news in the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping odyssey: that the NSA has been routinely scanning American…
Councils to loose some spy powers: “The end for super pooper-scooper snoopers?Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has opened a public consultation on how snooping laws should be used by local authorities…” (Via The Register – Public…
Unfair terms law can protect consumers for existing and future contracts, says Court of Appeal: “Consumer protection body the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is allowed to use laws on unfair contracts to take action…
Internet data to be stored from today: “Internet service providers will have to store details of web and email traffic and details of internet phone calls for 12 months from today as expanded European legislation…