Internet has changed foreign policy for ever, says Gordon Brown The Guardian | In exclusive interview with the Guardian, prime minister says web era 'more tumultuous than any previous economic or social revolution' | Gordon Brown says foreign policy 'can no longer be the province of just a few elites'. Photograph: Virginia Mayo/AP | Foreign policy can never be the same again...
Illegal music downloaders warned: 'Internet will be cut off unless you mend your ways' The Daily Mail | Support: Singer Duffy has lost out financially because of web piracy | Music web pirates have been warned that their internet service will be cut off unless they mend their ways. | The plan has been unveiled by Virgin Media, one of the UK's biggest internet service providers (ISPs), and follows pr...
Judge ends case in cyber hoax that led to girl's suicide Star Tribune | LOS ANGELES - A federal judge tentatively decided on Thursday to dismiss the case against a woman who had been convicted of computer fraud stemming from an Internet hoax that prompted a teenage girl to commit suicide. | Lori Drew of Dardenne Prairi...
Facebook cybercrime threat rises as number of members skyrockets Gulf News | Boston: Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the internet. | Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the ...
Woman bites off Internet adversary's ear Independent online | Cologne, Germany - A 19-year-old German woman has been arrested for biting off the ear of a 27-year-old woman following an argument in an Internet chat room, police said on Friday. | After the online dispute, the older woman turned up at the 19-yea...
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YouTube bully abuse video trial delayed NZ Herald 12:30PM Wednesday Jun 24, 2009 | An Italian court has postponed the trial against four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be post...
Google tackled on e-mail security BBC News | Google has been asked to explain why it is not making its Gmail e-mail service more secure. | In an open letter to Google boss Eric Schmidt, security experts, lawyers, and privac...
Keeping a True Identity Becomes a Battle Online The New York Times | SAN FRANCISCO - Since Facebook started giving out customized Web addresses like facebook.com/yourname last Friday, some 9.5 million people have rushed to grab their top choice. |...
U.K. to Restrict Internet Access for Repeat Digital Pirates Wall Street Journal By AARON O. PATRICK | Hoping to cut down on rampant online theft of music and movies, the British government plans to ratchet up pressure on suspected pirates with measures that wo...
MySpace, Web servers not liable for assaults: Court The Times Of India | Text: LOS ANGELES: Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion f...
Christina Patterson: Hurrah for democracy - and that World Wide Web The Independent | There are certain moments in a job that you'll always remember. One of mine was the day I logged on to the website of the organisation I was running, to find it had disappeared. In place of thousands of pages of information about poetry, education ...
Online advertisers launch sweeping rules over data privacy USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By Theresa Howard, USA TODAY The digital ad industry will announce Thursday sweeping new self-policing guidelines aimed at providing consumers with options for how they want to interact with o...
MARTIN SAMUEL: The 32 pages detailing why Michael Owen is not a spent force The Daily Mail | According to the sales pitch, Michael Owen is now ‘seeking the right opportunity to remind people why he was once crowned European Footballer of the Year’. | The trouble is: he had it. As his representatives point out, repeatedly, in their brochure, he appeared in 75 per cent of Newcastle United’s Premier League games in the las...
Warning over online flu drug panic The Guardian | The Government's Chief Medical Officer has warned the public to avoid panic-buying "counterfeit" anti-swine flu drugs online after it was revealed the number of new cases could reach 100,000 per day. | Sir Liam Donaldson, who confirmed that the UK has moved past the stage of containing the swine flu outbreak and into the "treatment...
