September 27th, 2010 Wikipedia has an entry on key escrow, if you aren’t familiar with the concept. Via: New York Times: Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate [...]
Global ‘internet treaty’ proposed Published on 09-20-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: London Telegraph The proposal was presented at the Internet Governance Forum in Lithuania last week, and outlined 12 “principles of internet governance”, including a commitment from countries to sustain the technological foundations that underpin the web’s infrastructure. The draft law has [...]
Google’s Secret Internal Vision Statement Reveals Struggle With Privacy Published on 08-11-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Wall Street Journal Jessica Vascellaro reports for the Wall Street Journal: A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in [...]
Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web Published on 08-11-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Network World No anonymity is the future of web in the opinion of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. He said many creepy things about privacy at the Techonomy Conference. The focus of the conference was how technology is [...]
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs Published on 07-17-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Torrent Freak After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free [...]
New Massachusetts law extends censorship to IM, e-mail, Web Published on 07-14-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Ars Technica It has long been illegal in Massachusetts to provide minors with “matter harmful to minors” under the state’s “Crimes against chastity, morality, decency, and good order” law. The law targets obscenity, but only its physical forms, [...]
German Government Takes Legal Action Against Facebook; Saving Private Data of Non-Members for Marketing Purposes July 8th, 2010 Via: BBC: German officials have launched legal proceedings against Facebook for accessing and saving the personal data of people who do not use the site. Facebook could face fines of tens of thousands of euros under privacy [...]
Source: The Wall Street Journal The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government’s chief eavesdropping [...]
Obama Internet Kill Switch Plan Approved by U.S. Senate June 27th, 2010 Via: Techworld: A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted [...]
Senate bill would authorize US president to seize control of Internet By Mike Ingram WSWS, 24 June 2010 A bill introduced by Joseph Lieberman, Independent Senator from Connecticut and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman, would give the US president wide-ranging powers, including the ability to order Internet providers to restrict access to the [...]
Source: Natural News The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicines for third-world countries. Yes, you read that right – WHO wants every [...]
Australian Government To Force Internet Users To Install State-Approved Software Published on 06-22-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: News.com.au AUSTRALIANS would be forced to install anti-virus and firewall software on their computers before being allowed to connect to the internet under a new plan to fight cyber crime. And if their computer did get infected, [...]
Australia Wants To Retain All Web Browsing Data Published on 06-13-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: The Age THE federal government wants your personal internet data, and they don’t want to have to apply to a court to get it. Revelations that the federal government wants Australia’s 400-odd internet service providers (ISPs) to log and [...]
FTC floats Drudge tax Journalism can reinvent itself without government ‘help’ By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 6:30 p.m., Friday, June 4, 2010 GETTY IMAGES Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (right), seen with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. at a news conference in Washington on Monday, says mortgage-rescue companies are on notice. The Federal Trade [...]
Source: Sovereign Independent Editor’s comment: When I bought my PC I was under the impression that it was my PERSONAL COMPUTER. Now it seems that it’s not. Under a new law as shown in the article below it seems that information on your PERSONAL computer is not private and that Eircom and presumably anyone, including [...]
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