Iceland hopes to host computer servers for international companies seeking freedom of speech. One of the consequences surrounding the most recent release by Wikileaks of documents relating to America’s war in Iraq is a renewed interest in the safe and secure hosting of contentious data. The prospect of hosting secret or questionably legal data within the United States has become increasingly less... 

Government would have “absolute power” to seize control of the world wide web under Lieberman legislation The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Jewish senator Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response... 

ACTA Mafia Click here to download the full ACTA agreement PDF file. The leaked ACTA agreement! Soon to be copy pasted into a law near you. “It provides for criminalization of copyright infringement, granting law enforcement the powers to perform criminal investigation, arrests and pursue criminal citations or prosecution of suspects who MAY have infringed on copyright” There is a section... 

The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails. The European Union directive, known as the Data Retention Directive, was approved by Brussels in March 2006, but Sweden has yet to implement the measure more than three years after its passage. The Swedish government conceded... 

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) secretary-general Hamadoun Toure The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday. International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning at a World Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when... 

You can help Saving the Internet by signing this petition. How much have you already used the Internet today? We don’t think twice about how much we rely on the Internet. Imagine not being able to map directions on Google or check the weather online. A business that doesn’t have a Web site? Forgettable. Or rather, unsearchable. Remember when we didn’t have e-mail? Would you want... 

It’s not exactly Big Brother and the overall intentions seem to have the public’s best interests at heart. But many are very uncomfortable about a proposed new law introduced in the House of Commons on Thursday that could affect anyone using the Internet in Canada. The bill, with the unwieldy name of “An Act Regulating Telecommunications Facilities to Support Investigations,”... 

A so-called racist video posted on US-based internet site YouTube is yet to be removed, despite a Perth man being charged for allegedly uploading the “anti-Semitic” film. Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan today said his officers had so far been unsuccessful in their negotiations with YouTube to have the controversial video pulled from the site, but inquiries were continuing. Maylands... 

The European Union’s competition watchdog has appoved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google. A lack of funding has meant the project – which is Latin for “I seek” – is still in the concept stage, but will now be able to get up and running thanks to support from France, which has championed...