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Article | 20/05/2010 Judge permanently shuts down ISP catering to spam, porn

A U.S. district court judge has ordered the permanent closure of an Internet service provider long accused of hosting and distributing spam, spyware, ...

Article | 20/05/2010 US lawmakers target The Pirate Bay, other sites

The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and fiv...

Article | 17/05/2010 US trade agency to investigate Apple's patent complaint

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate complaints by Apple that Eastman Kodak violated its patents related to digital imaging device...

Article | 13/05/2010 Net neutrality wars entangle free speech

U.S. Representative Cliff Stearns wants so badly to stop the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from creating network neutrality rules that he app...

Article | 7/05/2010 US agencies crack down on counterfeit networking hardware

US agencies targeting the sale of counterfeit networking hardware have gotten 30 felony convictions, including a man attempting to sell fake networkin...

Article | 5/05/2010 Lawmakers unveil online privacy legislation

Two U.S. lawmakers have released a draft bill that would require companies that collect personal information from customers to disclose how they colle...

Article | 29/04/2010 Facebook execs answer new privacy criticisms

Facebook will work with U.S. lawmakers to address concerns about privacy following the social-networking site's announcement a week ago that it was sh...

Article | 27/04/2010 US groups make last pitches on net neutrality

Net neutrality rules proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could upset a complex mobile telecom marketplace and lead to fewer handset...

Article | 22/04/2010 Consumer group calls for antitrust investigation of Google

The U.S. Department of Justice should launch a broad antitrust investigation into Google's search and advertising practices and consider a wide array ...

Article | 21/04/2010 Man gets jail for pirating movies under house arrest

A 22-year-old Ohio man has been sentenced to 29 months in prison for selling counterfeit movies online while serving a home detention sentence, the U....

Article | 21/04/2010 Gov't regulators slam Google's privacy efforts

Google and other online companies need to stop "willfully" disregarding privacy laws in many countries when rolling out new products or privacy polici...

Article | 8/04/2010 After US court ruling, what happens to net neutrality?

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is in legal limbo after a U.S. appellate court ruling Tuesday tossed out the agency's enforcement of networ...

Article | 7/04/2010 Court rules against US FCC's Comcast net neutrality decision

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority to order Comcast to stop throttling peer-to-...

Article | 1/04/2010 Study calls for more C-level involvement in cybersecurity

Organizations with top executives who aren't involved in cybersecurity decisions face a serious problem -- a major hit to their bottom lines, accordin...

Article | 31/03/2010 Tech firms, privacy groups want new e-privacy law

A coalition of tech vendors and privacy groups is calling on the U.S. Congress to update a 24-year-old law to better protect users of e-mail, cloud co...