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Sarkozy's problem is that, like other political leaders, he doesn't like a medium over which the government does not have final authority. With the Internet's arrival, lofty concepts such as freedom of speech and freedom of thought are actually gaini
The controversial Protect IP Act unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. When the Protect IP Act becomes law U.S. authorities and copyright holders will have the power to seize domains, block websites and censor search engines...
Politico reports that the Justice Department wants Congress to make Internet service providers store data about their users for a specified length of time to facilitate federal investigations.
Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months.
Among other measures, the act also authorizes a rights holder who is a victim of copyright infringement to take court action against a domain name owner or registrant.
Philip Reitinger, DHS bigwig, seemed to imply that the military would lead on cybersecurity even in the domestic sphere.
Sarkozy, before an audience that included top executives, said: The universe you represent is not a parallel universe.Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies.
What PIPA would create is the Great Firewall of America. US authorities, on the behest of a copyright complaint or other legal action, or even their own behest, can file an action to force DNS providers to block certain websites deemed infringing.
Lieberman’s vision for the Internet is less of an information superhighway and more of a government-controlled sanitized clone of cable television, where the web is purged entirely of dissent in a system even more draconian than that employed by...
Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems Inc. accusing it of supplying the Chinese government with computer-networking equipment used to spy on and persecute dissidents. In a lawsuit filed last week,
Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., said he was pleased with much of the White House Cyberspace Policy Review released last week. Unless Congress acts, he said, the Internet will devolve into a “digital Dodge City.”
They’re impossible to miss online: all those ads hawking cheap drugs, penny stock fortunes, low mortgage rates and instant wrinkle-zapping solutions. For consumers, it’s not always obvious which operators are legitimate. Search companies such
Those who illegally stream live video or audio over the Internet could face up to five years in prison under legislation recently introduced to the U.S. Senate. Ars Technica reported that Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris
For the last several months, Democratic members of Congress have been asking the Department of Homeland Security/ICE to clarify the policy behind its seizures of the domain names of websites that are alleged to be involved in copyright violations.
The approach is similar to congressional legislation already in the works, but some criticized it as being too weak Thursday, while the business community said it preferred a voluntary program rather than government mandates. Under its proposed le
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You put your username and passwords on a postcard and mail let the world see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection, that’s essentially what you're doing.
ISPs are increasingly looking to prioritise some traffic on their networks and block some.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the .XXX domain for pornography websites in a Registry Agreement with ICM Registry. "... The .xxx domain would be established especially for pornographic websites, and B
ICANN has approved the formation of the .XXX domain, the board of the organization said Friday. The board said it will allow its general counsel to allow execute a registry agreement with ICM, who will oversee the new domain. According to Peter De
Amazon’s escalating battle with several cash-strapped states over collecting sales tax on web purchases is yet another example of technology outpacing U.S. law. And the dispute shows no signs of a resolution any time soon.
One afternoon about 12 years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave John Doerr a call. A few months earlier, the Google cofounders had accepted $12.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
Former British intelligence chief Sir Richard Dearlove gave a speech not long ago where all recordings were prohibited. During that talk, he credited secrets outlet WikiLeaks with helping spark revolutions across the Middle East, saying they provide
Social media sites have played a huge role in the prodemocracy surge—but states have also been very good at using technology to suppress their people.
When Google updated its algorithm late last week to weed out low-quality content factories from the top of search results, the changes didn’t sit well with all.
If you used Google translate to translate from English to Arabic or vice versa you know how bad the translation is, especially when you translate an entire paragraph or article.
As comfortable as most of us have gotten buying and selling merchandise online, FBI statistics say "buyer beware of cyber crime!" The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), in conjunction with the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (
Not only did they plot to destroy WikiLeaks and discredit progressive bloggers, they also crafted detailed proposals for software that manages online "personas," allowing a single human to assume the identities of as many fake people as they'd like.
Rushkoff concluded that the Internet in its current form is simply unredeemable. From the near expulsion of WikiLeaks to Egypt's Internet blackout, it became clear to him that a fundamental change must be made.
