Saturday, August 25th, 2012
The Indian government said in a statement it had already blocked access to 245 web pages it said contained doctored videos and images, and the telecommunications secretary threatened legal action against the websites if they did not fully comply with the requests to take down the offending pages. Google and Facebook have largely complied with
Monday, August 13th, 2012
In South Korea — A government critic who called the president a curse word on his Twitter account found it blocked. An activist whose Twitter posting likened officials to pirates for approving a controversial naval base was...
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Google has agreed to pay a record settlement over charges that it bypassed privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser in order to display targeted advertisements to users who thought they had blocked web tracking, the Federal Trade...
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Congressmen are saying they want fresh assurances that the new strings will not harm trademark holders and that the public has adequate opportunity to comment. The latest salvo came on Tuesday from the top leaders of the...
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Google is being sued over its plan, announced in 2004, to scan millions of books from public and university libraries to provide snippets of text to people who use its Internet search engine. A Manhattan federal judge...
Monday, August 6th, 2012
At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net’s technical specifications and domain name system. They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce. There has been speculation...
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