Swine flu website grinds to a halt
Swine flu website grinds to a haltA much-heralded government website designed to relieve the pressure from frontline NHS staff by providing online diagnosis of swine flu ground to a halt today within a few minutes…
July 2009
Spotify will put us music critics out of a job
Spotify will put us music critics out of a jobBeyond the national sport of bellowing about who has or hasn’t made the Mercury Prize shortlist, this is the most significant year for the award since…
Gordon Brown’s plans to use phone tapping evidence in court thrown into chaos
Gordon Brown’s plans to use phone tapping evidence in court thrown into chaosThe proposed use of phone tapping evidence to secure convictions in terrorist and criminal trials has been shown in secret tests to be…
CN – Chinese Web sites close amid tightening controls
CN – Chinese Web sites close amid tightening controls(AP) Two more Web sites dedicated to social networking went offline in China amid tightening controls that have blocked Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites that offered…
UK – Right to privacy broken by a quarter of public databases
UK – Right to privacy broken by a quarter of public databases(Guardian) A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection…
P2P activity drops, but young people find other covert ways to share, finds survey
P2P activity drops, but young people find other covert ways to share, finds survey: “Illegal file-sharing activity amongst young people has dropped in the last two years according to a survey conducted by music industry…
Four million British identities are up for sale on the internet
Four million British identities are up for sale on the internet: “The identities of more than four million Britons are being offered for sale on the internet, The Times has learnt.“ (Via Tech and Web…
Iran blocks Wikileaks
Iran blocks Wikileaks: “ Site condemns their ‘Berlin Wall moment’ Iran has blocked access to whistleblowers’ site WikiLeaks, ahead of today’s expected protests.… “ (Via The Register – Public Sector.)
Google not liable for defamatory search snippets
Google not liable for defamatory search snippets: “ High Court heads off flood of cases from world + dog Google is not the publisher of defamatory words that appear in its search results, the High…
CN – How China polices the internet
CN – How China polices the internet(Financial Times) Like the entire political apparatus in China, the censorship machine is controlled by two institutional bodies: the Communist party and the government. At the national level, the…