Czech Republic Government Close to Implementing Data Retention Directive
Data retention is a big thing in Europe. Some countries governments like it, others do not. It seems that one country is now close to implementing the European ...
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Wikileaks – Phorm Crashes Browsers, Allegedly Broke the Law 113 Million Times
We have been following the Phorm controversy for some time now and now some new developments have emerged. These ...
Sweden on Track to Becoming the Next Surveillance Society?
The administrators of ThePirateBay know all to well what it's like to be spied on. Though if security legislators get their way, the MPAA might not need ...
Massive Data Retention Protests Hit Germany, Expected to Spread Across Europe
Imagine that every phone call, fax, e-mail, instant message and packet of information that you sent and received was captured by your government and stored for two years, regardless of ...
Bell – We Are Transparent to Our Customers, CIPPIC – Do Tell
Somewhere between the debate of Bell throttling their users and politicians tabling network neutrality legislation are a host of smaller debates such as privacy and transparency. It ...
German ISP and Telecommunications Company Raided Over Spy Scandal
The idea of a telecommunications company abusing its power to breach privacy has been anywhere from tossed around a few years back to an outright political battle as seen in ...
Canadian MP Announces Net Neutrality Bill During 300 Person Strong Rally
It has become an all-too often situation in Canada where there's either a copyright or technology related bill being tabled or there are plans for such bills that many consumers ...
Canada – Net Neutrality Rally Expected on Parliament Hill
There's no shortage of coverage on the Bell Canada case. Now Canadians are planning on a huge network neutrality rally on the grounds of parliament hill.
Network neutrality in the ...
Privacy Commissioner Requested to Investigate Bell Canada Over Filtering
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic recently announced that they are making a request to the privacy commissioner to investigate Canadian major Internet Service Provider Bell ...
French RIAA Announces Deadline to Ban File-Sharers from the Internet
The EFF points us to new disturbing demands by the French version of the RIAA known as SNEP (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique). Among the demands are ...
Demanding the Impossible – RIAA Demands ISPs Fight Piracy
Trying to get the gatekeepers of the internet - mainly the Internet Service Provider - to fight against 'copyright infringement' is nothing new. After several countries jumped on board ...
P2P ISP Filtering Test Published, Labels Deny Ensuing Criticism
It was a study few had caught on to. Internet Evolution launched a study to determine exactly how good were the vendors ISP-level P2P filtering software. After the ...
Demands Increase to Annul European Data Retention Policy
The European Digital Rights organization is joining calls to annul the European directive on data retention. The group, along with 42 civil liberties non-governmental organizations say the ...
Phorm Analysis by Richard Clayton Released, Trials Continue
An interesting technical analysis of the controversial Phorm technology has been released recently. It offers an informative look into the technology that is currently being rolled out for ISPs.
Imagine every ...
Phorm Storm Continues to Ravage British Users
Last week, we briefly covered the Phorm controversy facing British uses. This week, the controversy continues with other players jumping in on the action.
Imagine a time when ...
US Senate Keeps Telecom Immunity Provision
Consumer rights advocates and the people they represent in the US was dealt with another blow today. The Senate approved a provision that would give US telecom companies retroactive ...
Experts Debate on AT&T Filtering the Internet
With Time Warner saying that it would cap and introduce consumption-based billing, things for ISP consumers took another hit with AT&T thinking that they ...
Canadian MP wants to clean up the internet
Conservative MP Joy Smith introduces the Clean Internet Act.
The Clean Internet Act (Bill C-427) is a newly submitted private member bill in the Parliament of Canada by ...
Not all ISPs target P2P as badly as BT
BT never targetted P2P this badly before. We never had any issues at all until April, and upon googling and searching forums like utorrent.com's we found many others in the ...
Bulgarian ISP speaks out on BitTorrent crackdown
The Bulgarian government has been cracking down on BitTorrent tracker sites as of late, and the people of that country are none to happy.
Just this last Sunday, as ...
