JURIST Guest Columnist Derek Bambauer of Brooklyn Law School says that the increased censorship of journalists worldwide is a result of technological innovations, which facilitate dissemination of information, but heighten the perceived threat to governments fighting to maintain control...Journalists have...
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US Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano on Friday criticized other nations for not advancing and embracing new technology, thus leaving themselves open to attacks from cyber-criminals. At an international security conference in...
Australia introduces cybercrime legislation, seeks to join international treaty
The Australian Government on Wednesday introduced legislation aimed at reinforcing current cybercrime laws and improving Australia's international cybercrime security. Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland and Minister for Home Affairs and Justice Brendan O'Connor ...
US authorities announced Thursday that they are investigating claims by Google that hundreds of personal Gmail accounts were breached by hackers in China. Google disclosed on Wednesday that hundreds of users, including US government and military officials...
Chinese officials allegedly orchestrated the hacking of Google , which caused the Internet company to briefly pull out of China earlier this year, according to a Saturday New York Times report citing...
Google calls for global trade rules to limit Internet restrictions
Google on Monday urged the international community to ensure the free flow of online information by respecting global trade regulations and establishing new rules to protect against limitations on the Internet....
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China released a position paper Sunday on the country's human rights record, claiming that it has heightened Internet freedoms and improved...
Google agreed to follow Chinese censorship laws before license renewal: official
A Chinese government official announced Tuesday that Google has agreed to abide by the country's censorship laws and stop automatically redirecting users to its uncensored Hong Kong-based site. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...
China looks to increase Internet regulation, decrease anonymity
Chinese Internet regulators have plans to drastically reduce internet anonymity by requiring users to use their real names when posting on certain Chinese websites, according to documents released Tuesday by New York-based human rights group Human Rights in...
Google to stop redirecting China users to unfiltered Hong Kong search engine
Google announced Monday that it will stop redirecting Internet users in mainland China to its unfiltered search engine in Honk Kong in an effort to renew the company's Internet Content Provider license....