The recent sex scandal involving Channel 10's Big Brother program has highlighted a soon-to-be-closed loophole in Australian broadcasting laws when dealing with live streaming video content.
A single law against hacking and spamming could stop the UK looking like a soft touch, according to the Communications Management Association.
New Internet censorship laws introduced to NSW Parliament will criminalise Internet material unsuitable for children, effectively banning adult discussion of social and political topics, according to staunch civil liberties supporters.
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E-commerce legislation brought in by the government in 2002 has been blamed for the dramatic rise in premium rate fraud hitting dial-up Web users.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Copyright controversies have plagued the Internet since the early days of Napster, but what is the current state of play, and can the issues ever be resolved?
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?
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether the tech industry is only kidding itself about what it will take to fight the plague.
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday lashed out at Internet telephony, saying the fast-growing technology could foster "drug trafficking, organised crime and terrorism."
Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released today.
IT lawyer and ZDNet Australia columnist Jeremy Szwider looks at the legalities of e-mail forwarding.
Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
Always a contentious topic, we look server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
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Making copies of DVD movies on the office machine may seem like an excellent idea to some of your employees. But what issues should Australian enterprises and IT departments be aware of?
Security expert Bruce Schneier argues that constant vigilance, not technology, is the best defence against computer break-ins.
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