Privacy Laws for Kids Online The Examiner | Numerous privacy groups are urging the FTC to update its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. The primary goal of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, is to give parents control over what information is collected from their children online and how such informati...
Verizon top Capitol Hill lobbyer on Internet laws Ars Technica | The big telco and cable ISPs are always busy beavers over at Capitol Hill, lobbying Congress on a wide variety of issues. But our perusal of the relevant public disclosure databases suggests that Verizon wins the prize for money spent on convincing Senators and Representatives to see broadband- an...
St Gordon and Sir Tony – the hairshirt v the linen shirt on the road to redemption The Guardian | Brown and Blair are embarking on very different post-premiership paths. But the more austere model does not necessarily reflect greater personal virtue Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in 2006. Photograph: Graeme Robertson | So Gordon Brown has made his...
Malaysia to monitor Internet for 'harmful' blogs The Times Of India KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has formed a task force to scour the Internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, authorities said Friday in the latest of a series of actions against new media. | Home ministry deputy secretary general for secu...
Court rules online bookmaker illegal Seattle Times | OLYMPIA - All bets are off at , a Seattle-based online bookmaker that couldn't skirt the state's gambling laws by making it optional for losing bettors to pay off wagers. | In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the Washington state Supreme Court said Bet...
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How WikiLeaks Keeps Its Funding Secret Wall Street Journal By JEANNE WHALEN and DAVID CRAWFORD | The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elabora...
Facebook chief puts off IPO Ohio | Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public stock offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three pe...
Government seizes untaxed cigarettes in Minnesota Business Journal Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: ...
House bill could limit Web sales of alcohol The Columbus Dispatch | Thomas Van Creasap recently shipped some wine from Shamrock Vineyards in Waldo to customers in Phoenix. | That's fine with the state of Ohio. And no middleman was involved. Legis...
Special Home Ministry unit set up to monitor Internet: Hishammuddin The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: A special unit has been set up to monitor postings on the Internet that can cause disunity and racial tension among the people, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. | He said the unit would gather the expertise of t...
Judge temporarily off bench over online sex photos National Post By Kenyon Wallace, National Post; With Files From The Winnipeg Free Press September 2, 2010 6:27 AM The personal lives of Judge Lori Douglas and her husband, Winnipeg family lawyer Jack King, were thrust into the headlines on Tuesday wh...
Misterfifteen: The Online Detritus of Discovery Channel Hostage Taker James Jay Lee Newsvine | AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS in breaking news stories about hostage takers, murderers and other notorious celebrities in the 21st century, the investigation into the online personality of Discovery Channel hostage taker James J. (Jay) Lee has begun in earne...
Two thirty seven million internet users in India by 2015: Report Zeenews Boston: India will see its number of internet users triple to 237 million from the current 81 million by 2015, according to a report. | In a study titled 'Internet's New Billion', the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia (BRICI) will have more than 1.2 billion internet users by 2015 - well over three times the num...
237 million Internet users in India by 2015 Deccan Chronicle --> 237 million Internet users in India by 2015 | Share ARTICLEURL | India will see its number of Internet users triple to 237 million from the current 81 million by 2015, according to a report. In a study titled “Internet's New Billion”, the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia (BRICI) will have more than 1.2...
