Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
If you read my blog yesterday, you saw that things were looking pretty bleak for ICANN and international control of the Internet. However, today things have changed. A Russia-led coalition withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over the Internet, a plan opposed by Western countries in talks on a new global telecom treaty.
Monday, December 10th, 2012
A 12-day conference of the International Telecommunications Union, taking place in Dubai, is supposed to result in the adoption of a new international treaty governing trans-border communications. But in a critical session at the midpoint of the...
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
The new law expands the FTC’s powers so it can share information about cross-border online fraud with foreign law enforcement authorities. A top FTC official said at a hearing earlier this year that the bill has equipped...