UK prosecutors drop ‘tiger’ sex video case: “ North Wales Police missed Frosties connection The CPS dropped a prosecution under the extreme porn law last week when it apparently accepted that the soundtrack on a…
AU – Net filter satire site back after domain deletion: “(Ars Technica) Stephen Conroy is Australia’s Communications Minister and, in that role, has been instrumental in pushing for ISP-level traffic filters that will block access…
Wikileaks suspends ops to launch pledge drive: “(The Register) Wikileaks has temporarily suspended operations while it launches a pledge drive. The whistle blowing site is taking time out to ask for support in many forms,…
Privacy policy clause is not justification for revealing anonymous poster’s identity, US court rules: “An anonymous web user who posted a comment under an online newspaper story cannot be un-masked, a US Court has ruled….
UK publishers win right to protect brewer leak source: “Five UK news publishers have won the right not to hand over leaked documents after defying successive UK court rulings ordering them to release the files….
Government charts Digital Britain progress: “The Government claims that a quarter of the recommendations in the Digital Britain report published six months ago have already been implemented. Others, including the passing of controversial legislation, are…
Why Nominet disconnected more than 1,000 sites with no court oversight: “The body responsible for the .uk internet addresses disconnected over 1,200 websites without any oversight from a court. The much-publicised action last month was…
Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship (PDF file) Prepared by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University….