CN – China warns Google to comply with censorship laws (BBC) China’s top internet official has warned that Google will ‘pay the consequences’ if it continues to go against Chinese law. Minister of Industry and…
EU – EDRi sends open letter to Commissioners to oppose Internet blocking (EDRI-gram) EDRi has written to Commissioners Cecilia Malmström (Home Affairs), Viviane Reding (Justice and Fundamental Rights) and Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) about the…
CA – Ontario adds Internet safety to elementary curriculum (The Canadian Press) Ontario is changing the school curriculum to include Internet safety lessons. The Liberal government has approved changes to the health and physical education…
Online Hate Sites Grow With Social Networks (New York Times) Terrorists and racists are turning to online social networks and depending less on traditional Web sites, according to a new report on digital terror and…
Report names 'enemies of the Internet'(CNET) A report by Reporters Without Borders, which fights for freedom of the press across the world, has cited several nations for their attempts to restrict freedom on the Net….
Bianet: Internet Censorship: Turkey “Under Surveillance” of RSF Reporters Without Borders added Turkey and Russia to the organization’s ‘under surveillance’ list published in the latest report on 12 March. ‘Taboo topics’ for Turkey are quoted…
Ed Balls Warns OnJames Bulger Killer Jon Venables Sent Back To Jail On Suspected Child Porn Offences | UK News | Sky News 2:12pm UK, Sunday March 07, 2010 Alison Chung, Sky News Online The…
Bulger killer Jon Venables jailed again ‘for child porn’ | News.com.au By Alison Chung and Tom Bonnett, Sky News NewsCore, March 08, 2010 5:44AM JON Venables, who killed two-year-old British toddler James Bulger in 1993,…
EU Data Protection Supervisor Warns Against ACTA, Calls 3 Strikes Disproportionate: “(Michael Geist) Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, has issued a 20-page opinion expressing concern about ACTA. The opinion focuses on three key…
Microsoft backs down over online 'spy guide': “(Guardian) Microsoft has been forced to backtrack after it closed down a whistleblowing website after it published a leaked version of the company’s ‘spy guide’. The American software…