China said Thursday it will not force PC makers to bundle an Internet filtering program with computers sold in the country, backing down from a plan that stirred global controversy. China will “definitely not” require the program, called Green Dam, to be packaged with all consumer PCs, said Li Yizhong, China’s Minister of Industry and…
Category: Govt
Government contracts with social media companies lack privacy terms
In response to an EPIC Freedom of Information Act Request, the Government Services Administration released several contracts between the federal government and web 2.0 companies, including agreements with Blip.tv, Blist, Google (YouTube), Yahoo (Flickr), and MySpace. EPIC also obtained amendments to agreements with Facebook, Slideshare.net, Vimeo.com, and AddThis.com. The contracts do not address the privacy…
EFF’s recommendations for federal web privacy policy
Today, EFF and the Center for Democracy and Technology submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget in response to the agency’s review of the policies governing the federal government’s use of cookies and other web technologies. The comments are an extension of recommendations we made in May, in which we suggested that the…
What is Malaysia’s “internet filter” for?
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has confirmed that it is looking into monitoring technology for the internet. But what it’s for is the subject of considerable debate. In the 1990s, when setting up what was then termed the Multimedia Super Corridor (which, applicants soon found out was not a corridor as depicted on…