News (33)

  • Taming the Web

    Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.

  • Google's privacy concerns unfounded: US government

    The US Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search-engine's users, as the company recently contended.

  • The battle over triple 'x'

    By the end of this year, Internet users could have an extraordinarily convenient place to find pornography: a new .xxx top-level domain.

  • Police to get powers to censor Australians' Web

    Federal Police could soon have the power to control which sites can and cannot be viewed by Australian Web surfers.

  • Google stands up to US government porn probe

    US Federal prosecutors preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court have asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online to hand over millions of search records -- a request that Google is adamantly denying.

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    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.

  • Election 07: Coonan vs Conroy

    With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?

  • Blame the computer

    Is it just me, or are you also tired of technology copping the blame for what are obviously people problems?

  • IT professionals sceptical about Gartner predictions

    Just because Gartner is a prestigious research firm doesn't mean people believe what it says. Find out which of Gartner's latest predictions have IT pros up in arms.

  • Cyberlaw: Future's pretty fuzzy

    The state of Internet law was in flux in 2001. Lawyer Doug Isenberg says that if any lesson has emerged, it's that the same thing will probably remain true for 2002.

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