Broadband providers Internode and iiNet have hit out against the Federal government's ISP-level content filtering initiative — a scheme that could cripple Australia's high-speed internet access, according to one exec.
For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be introducing changes to the regulation of restricted content available online and via mobile premium services next week, even after an overwhelming negative response from the media and industry.
Yahoo's top executives faced a US Congressional hearing yesterday after being accused of providing false information to the House last year over its role in the arrest of Chinese cyberdissident Shi Tao.
Google, Yahoo, MSN along with other search and e-mail companies may no longer be acting illegally if they spy on their customers and then share that information with the National Security Agency.
The so-called "Howard hacker", who has apparently been reported to the Australian Federal Police, told ZDNet Australia that he is innocent of defacing the Liberal Web site.
commentary Time for a quick poll. Hands up if you've downloaded one of these NetAlert family-friendly Internet filters the federal government has been spruiking.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the Web, has described online security as a "never-ending battle".
Federal Police could soon have the power to control which sites can and cannot be viewed by Australian Web surfers.
Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Charles Cooper says the tech industry should move beyond its take-it or leave-it approach to trade and human rights.
Escalating bandwidth costs and falling network performance are two major problems that often have a common cause: staff using the Internet for non-work purposes.
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Since today’s corporate organisational charts don’t include positions for full-time censors, here’s a list of what not to say to corporate leadership and why.
Columnist Josh Mehlman suggests that anti-spammers treat spam prevention as a real job, not a crusade; do it professionally, openly, and most of all, fairly.
Will the Australian government make the same mistakes with biotechnology that it has with information technology? All too likely, says a leading industry commentator.
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The weekend's Big Brother "sex scandal", during which the official site's live feed and forums were taken offline, highlights an issue that is provoking debate across the globe: to what extent are Web site administrators responsible for the conduct of their users?
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