The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
An online privacy bill introduced in the U.S. Congress this week received mixed reviews at a subcommittee hearing Thursday, with representatives of two trade groups saying the bill would put unnecessary regulations on the Internet advertising industry.
The Best Practices Act, introduced by Representative Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat, would require websites to get opt-in permission [...] Read more »
China is poised to strengthen a law to require telecommunications and Internet companies to inform on customers who discuss state secrets, potentially forcing businesses to collaborate with the country’s vast security apparatus that stifles political dissent.
The move, reported Tuesday by state media, comes as China continues tightening controls on communications services. It also follows a [...] Read more »
For anyone thinking that the Google-China dynasty war would be resolved quickly — and that mutual economic concerns would ultimately force both armies to ratchet down this uniquely 21-century cyberduel — this was the week for the rudest of awakenings.
The hacking hits just keep on coming in China. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced that its Chinese [...] Read more »
US technology firms and privacy groups have called for an overhaul of privacy laws, saying the government has too much access to private online data.
Google, eBay and others have launched the Digital Due Process coalition, seeking to update the 1986 privacy act, passed before internet usage exploded.
It calls for warrants to be issued before e-mails [...] Read more »
Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.
Now it is “ridiculously easy” to register a domain name under false details, said Paul Hoare, senior manager and head of e-crime operations [...] Read more »
Google’s face-off with Beijing over censorship may have struck a philosophical blow for free speech and encouraged some Chinese Netizens by its sheer chutzpah, but it doesn’t do a thing for Internet users in China. It merely hands the job of blocking objectionable content back to Beijing.
Its more lasting impact may lie in the [...] Read more »
A group of US senators Wednesday launched a bipartisan caucus aimed at promoting global Internet freedom, saying the Web should allow free speech and not be used by governments to crack down on dissent.
“Just as we stand against physical brutality of oppressive regimes, so too we must stand against this new digital tyranny that violates [...] Read more »
Google is urging the U.S. government to make net censorship a part of its trade and diplomatic negotiations, even as it holds out hope that China does not start blocking its uncensored Hong Kong servers, where Google.cn users have been diverted since Monday.
Not unexpectedly, Google came in for heavy congressional praise Wednesday at a hearing [...] Read more »
It’s business as usual at Google China’s headquarters in Beijing, the company said Tuesday after the announcement the US Internet giant had stopped censoring its search engine results.
Dozens of journalists crowded outside the company’s offices in the Chinese capital to seek reaction following Google’s announcement, but security staff prevented them from entering the building.
“What I [...] Read more »
Internet giant Google led high-profile criticism of Australia’s controversial plan to filter the Internet Tuesday, saying it went too far and could set a dangerous precedent.
Currently locked in a major dispute over censorship in China, the US web giant said its primary concern with Australia’s proposal was “that the scope of content to be filtered [...] Read more »
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