Julia Gillard’s bid to censor the internet is not an effective move
, says Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet and Google’s chief web evangelist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Earth, the Chrome browser and photo service Picasa will be available for download in Iran for the first time, the search giant has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Environment officials from the European Union are preparing to prosecute the Swedish government after it again allowed the hunting of wild and endangered wolves — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internal US government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to US interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard is standing by an exemption from freedom of information laws for NBN Co – the publicly-owned company building Australia’s biggest infrastructure project.
As an incorporated company, NBN Co will avoid FOI scrutiny, unlike Australia Post, the ABC, SBS and Telstra before it was privatised — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Central Highlands regional mayor Peter Maguire says he is not sure if councils can force residents to build high-set homes in flood-prone areas in Queensland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves. Only a few days ago they held 16,000 volumes.
Now, after a campaign on Facebook, there are none. Every library user was urged to pick their full entitlement of 15 books, take them away and keep them for a week. The idea was to empty the shelves by closing time on Saturday: in fact with 24 hours to go, the last sad bundle of self-help and practical mechanics books was stamped out. Robert Gifford, chair of Stony Stratford town council, planned to collect his books when he got home from work in London, but left it too late — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with WikiLeaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
He experienced a similar incident last year at Newark airport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ACT Greens want all new suburbs in Canberra to have land set aside for community gardens — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A strange bit of JavaScript has found its way onto Tunisian Internet users’ internet login screens. Some are now in jail in a country known for torture. But they’ve been adopted by an unlikely ally: Anonymous — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Swiss village has found a drastic way to compel dog holders to pay their pet’s annual tax: cough up, or the dog gets it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has spoken out against ISP internet filtering, saying that it is an ineffective band-aid that leaves illegal material online and in the wild — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After nearly fifty years of persevering with a life under her husband’s surname, 75-year-old Kyoko Tsukamoto is taking the Japanese government to court so that she can at least bear her own name when she dies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), has agreed to make pornographic websites inaccessible to Indonesian users of the phone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On Saturday morning, a gunman shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords while she was meeting with constituents outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona, and then apparently kept on shooting, leaving six people (including a nine-year-old girl) dead and Rep. Giffords in critical condition.
While the rest of the world was wishing Gifford well, mourning the dead, and denouncing the vitriol that encourages such violence, Travis Corcoran, the president of online comics retailer Heavy Ink, put up a post on his personal blog titled 1 down, 534 to go
. Corcoran was, of course, referring to the 535 members of Congress — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Concerned by the wave of requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies, Google last year set up an online tool showing the frequency of these requests in various countries. In the first half of 2010, it counted more than 4,200 in the United States.
Google is not alone among Internet and telecommunications companies in feeling inundated with requests for information. Verizon told Congress in 2007 that it received some 90,000 such requests each year. And Facebook told Newsweek in 2009 that subpoenas and other orders were arriving at the company at a rate of 10 to 20 a day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Icelandic politicians have blasted US demands for Twitter to hand over a member of parliament’s account details. Birgitta Jonsdottir faces investigation as one of several people connected to the website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Plans to cut disability benefits could breach human rights laws, the government has been warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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