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Article | 9/03/2011 Trade, civil liberties groups urge cybersecurity incentives
The U.S. government should look to incentives as a way to encourage businesses to adopt better cybersecurity practices, instead of creating mandates, ...
Article | 9/03/2011 FTC: ID theft again tops consumer complaints
Reports of identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2010, the 11th straight year that ID theft ha...
Article | 8/03/2011 New Indian rules may make online censorship easier
Draft rules proposed by the Indian government for intermediaries such as telecommunications companies, Internet service providers and blogging sites c...
Article | 7/03/2011 China pledges to step up administration of Internet
China says it will step up administration of the Internet this year while continuing to build out the country's fiber-optic backbone and expand broadb...
Article | 5/03/2011 Republican lawmaker promises new online privacy legislation
A senior Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives will soon introduce legislation designed to give Web users more control of their perso...
Article | 5/03/2011 DOJ won't comment on reports of MPEG LA probe
A U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman would not comment Friday on reports that the agency is investigating patent management firm MPEG LA for alleg...
Article | 4/03/2011 FCC moves to redirect phone subsidies for the poor
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took the first step Thursday toward reworking two related programs that provide telephone subsidies for low...
Article | 3/03/2011 Online calls for protests put China on the defensive
Recent online calls for mass protests have sent the Chinese government on the defensive, and while experts say the online activity probably won't lead...
Article | 3/03/2011 FTC, DOJ crack down on money-making schemes
A yearlong sweep targeting bogus employment and money-making schemes has resulted in more than 90 law enforcement and civil actions, including a restr...
Article | 2/03/2011 EU raids digital book sellers in cartel investigation
The European Union’s competition regulators carried out unannounced inspections into various companies that sell digital books on Tuesday on suspicion...
Article | 2/03/2011 Taiwan orders work to stop at growing science park
A Taiwan court has ordered work to stop expansion at a science park, the latest move in a saga that has pitted environmental groups against the island...
Article | 1/03/2011 Cebit kicks off with talk of openness
Open democracy, open borders and open standards were the themes to which speakers returned again and again at the opening ceremony for the Cebit trade...
Article | 28/02/2011 New EU consumer law could damage online rights, BSA claims
Including digital content and services in the new Consumer Rights Directive could have a detrimental effect on online consumers, the Business Software...
Article | 26/02/2011 Swiss court to issue ruling on Google Street View
A Swiss court is considering a request from the country's data protection commissioner that Google should manually blur people's faces in its Street V...
Article | 25/02/2011 Huawei calls US "bluff," invites probe to clear reputation
Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei wants to clear its reputation and has asked the U.S. government to investigate the company for co...