New Australian laws designed to crack down on Internet harassment and usage of the medium to advocate violence have been met with a cautious reaction from online civil libertarians.
Anyone who recklessly loses personal data will face a "substantial" fine, after the UK government created a new civil offence.
After a prolonged but successful trial, the NSW Attorney-General has officially launched JusticeLink, an online judicial network allowing lawyers and judges to engage in some court hearings and proceedings over the Internet.
A member of the advisory group charged with helping develop the new anti-spam legislation does not feel the final document goes far enough in punishing people found guilty of spamming.
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Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Phil Zimmermann, the man who created the PGP encryption product, believes that Moore's Law and surveillance cameras make for a particularly dangerous cocktail.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
Civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as "ludicrous".
The software giant fixes a flaw in its Passport online identity system that could have allowed an attacker to take over old Hotmail accounts.
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