The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of blocking
as a way of regulating content on the Internet. The vote — 460 in favour, 0 against and 3 abstentions — this morning means that ISPs will not be forced to restrict access to Web sites. Instead, they have been given the green light to continue with self-regulation
Gateway is taking to the airwaves in a bid to rally consumers against a copyright-protection bill that would prevent computers from playing pirated movies and music
In the UK companies don’t have the right to police their employees’ emails even if they have reasonable cause to believe that the email is personal. But conversely, the UK government thinks it’s entirely reasonable to require all ISPs to record all traffic
To librarian Anne Lipow, filtering software isn’t merely a bad idea. She told a panel of federal judges on Tuesday that Congress’ attempt to force the use of anti-smutware in public libraries is positively Stalinist
A loophole in new employment legislation could mean gay and lesbian workers or even single parents are sacked if their lifestyles are deemed at odds with the ethos of their employers
Stephens, founder of the Yoga Inside Foundation in Venice, CA, has been duking it out with Santa Clara’s Intel Corp for more than a year over whether his do-gooding non-profit violates the chipmaker’s Intel Inside
trademark
Florida, a state run by another corrupt shrub, has implemented restrictions on gay parenting. This doesn’t just mean that if you’re gay you can’t adopt, it also means that children in happy, stable homes can be legally removed by the state because of their parents sexuality. Welcome to the land of the free
The New Zealand government now wants network operators and ISPs to ensure they can spy on customers using their services on behalf of police and secret service groups
Operation Clambake, a project that exposes Scientology as a scam, has received a DMCA notification letter from Google that was issued at the request of the Religious Technology Centre and Bridge Publications — the Church of Scientology. A long list of URLs were listed as infringing, and Google has complied with the DMCA request by removing them
A pre-trial decision by a judge in a dispute over a multimillion-dollar home in Marion could end up making real estate deals outlined in email as binding as those put on paper
Is NSW heading for a brave new world of Internet censorship where, by protecting some, we effectively block access to all?
Three key players in the children-overboard affair have been gagged by the Howard Government and will be prevented from appearing before a Senate inquiry
Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the 11 September Victim Compensation Fund — a fund created by Congress and run by the Department of Justice — said that gay partners of the heroes of 11 September will not necessarily be eligible for the same compensation as heterosexual family members who lost their loved ones
Australia’s top-secret satellite spy agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, has been given sweeping new powers to report on Australians to the Federal Government
A former Optus employee and alleged hacker, bailed to appear before a Sydney court today, has told ZDNet Australia that he will not be making an appearance. He claims the idea that he hacked into an Optus database is a beat-up story aimed at scaring him away from an earlier claim of unfair dismissal against the carrier — the outcome of which is still pending
UK Government plans to archive all internet traffic and e-mail has been singled out for a controversial award at this year’s Big Brother Award ceremony
Privacy advocates vow that they would have serious concerns if Australia followed US moves to allow organisations to track people’s location via their mobile phones
Since 11 September last year, up to 2000 people in the United States have been detained without trial, or charge, or even legal rights. The fate of most is unknown. And while the retarded monkey boy is pimping an axis of evil, the international view believes that the United States is a part of it
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and four major law school legal clinics announced the launch of a project and web site — Chilling Effects — to empower Internet with detailed information about their legal rights in to cease-and-desist letters designed to restrict online activities
A long-awaited computer program that can circumvent government censorship of the internet has debuted at a computer conference in the US. The program — Peekabooty — promises to give people in countries such as China and Saudi Arabia safe access to the whole of the internet. In these countries, internet access is controlled by government-operated ISPs, which blacklist certain web sites. This may include news sites that are deemed unsympathetic to government policy
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