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By: Jane Abell
Date: 29 Jun 2011
Microsoft has been granted a patent for technology that acts as a wiretap of sorts for Internet communication, allowing governments or other law-enforcement authorities to record the data without detection.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 29 Jun 2011
Yasser Elkady survived Egypt's revolution to remain CEO of the country's IT development arm. He is now in the U.S. traveling city to city to meet with IT companies to assure them that Egypt remains a good place to do business.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 29 Jun 2011
In 2010 alone, Indian government made more than 3,000 requests seeking user details from Google, while it also sought removal of various content, including those defamatory in nature, in about 100 cases during the year.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jun 2011
EFF has joined with a coalition of more than 80 global civil society groups which have declined to endorse a set of Internet Pol
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jun 2011
The more Mexican authorities try to stamp out violent drug ballads celebrating the joys of narcotics trafficking, the more their fame spreads like wildfire, fanned by the Internet.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jun 2011
Internet freedom and an economic free fall are combining for unprecedented protests in Belarus, a nation historically locked up by a Soviet-style leader.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jun 2011
Internet giant Google's tussles with some governments over Internet censorship could get worse, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Monday, adding he feared his own colleagues faced mounting danger of occasional arrest and torture.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 27 Jun 2011
The European Parliament, Council and Commission negotiations on the proposed child exploitation Directive - which originally proposed the introduction of mandatory EU-wide blocking - have provisionally reached a compromise. The text now needs to be approved by the Parliament's political groups before being voted in in the Civil Liberties Committee in July and in a plenary session of the Parliament in September.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 27 Jun 2011
Fotografiska, a contemporary photography museum in Stockholm, has elected to censor its own promotional material for an upcoming exhibition to draw attention to Facebook's strict nudity ban.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 27 Jun 2011
A discussion topic last week on the prophet Muhammad caused some tension among the writers of the Ekşi Sözlük; according to reports, somebody filed a complaint to the police accusing some writers of insulting the Prophet.
