CA – Social Network Site Privacy: A Comparative Analysis of Six Sites: “(Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada) This report was prepared for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner by Jennifer Barrigar, a consultant…
Turkey criticized for blocking access to websites By Yigal Schleifer Oct 9, 2009, 2:08 GMT Istanbul – For Turkish internet users, it’s an image that’s becoming increasingly familiar: at many websites, instead of a homepage,…
This speech will be delivered in Strasbourg on Thursday, 08 October, 2009 Intervention Speech for the Cross-Border Internet: Consultation meeting organised by the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 8-9 October 2009. By Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate…
On 22 September 2009 I estimated that access to at least 6000 websites are blocked from Turkey. That was followed by the infamous blocking decisions involving both myspace.com and Last.fm from Turkey. During this weekend…
Brooke Shields pic exposes real/online rift Will the Internet Watch Foundation act? Police advice to the Tate Modern Art Gallery, that one of the pictures in their current ‘Pop Life‘ exhibition may be child porn,…
Illegal internet downloaders may face connection slowdown: “People who persistently download music illegally may have their internet connections slowed rather than cut off.“ (Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)
Facebook removes ‘Should Obama be killed?’ poll | Technically Incorrect – CNET News: “September 28, 2009 11:57 AM PDT by Chris Matyszczyk Updated at 12:28 p.m. PDT with comment from Facebook. All human life is…
China strengthens Great Firewall ahead of anniversary: “ Tor users targeted The Chinese government has used its unrivalled net censorship apparatus to attack parts of the Tor network ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist…
Yaman Akdeniz, an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University today (29 September, 2009) made an appeal to the Beyoglu Criminal Court of Peace to overturn the blocking decision involving…
Big differences in big banks’ security – Which? Computing magazine – Press – About Which? 27 August 2009 Some of Britain’s biggest banks appear to be leaving their customers’ online accounts vulnerable to fraud because…