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    Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.

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    Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • How hackers broke into Palin's e-mail

    Details have emerged about how Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email account was broken into, including a hacker's claim he was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password.

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    Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.

  • Google: Gunning for desktop space

    In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.

  • Google's desktop bet

    Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.

  • 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.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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