Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin has called for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to apologise for his criticism of iiNet's Federal Court defence and warned it might lead to legal action.
In a setback for privacy and civil liberties groups, the US Senate on Tuesday voted to protect telephone and Internet companies from lawsuits alleging illegal cooperation with US government spy agencies.
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.
Google's planned acquisiton of DoubleClick has led to US government antitrust committees and liberal consumer groups watching the search giant's moves, just like they did Microsoft's not too long ago.
The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.
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.
Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.
Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.
A major flaw in Windows Media Player 9 could allow an attacker to view and modify media files. This could potentially compromise confidential information for companies that distribute internal announcements via video.
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