Ernesto writes: Following a lengthy legal procedure the Court of Bergamo has once again ruled that Italian ISPs have to censor their networks and prevent customer access to The Pirate Bay. Millions of Italian Internet users will be denied access to the popular torrent site in an attempt to prevent copyright infringement. […] Pirate Bay…
Category: Non-U.S.
Swiss minister says U.S. insists on UBS tax deal: report
Reuters reports: The Swiss government will probably have to turn to parliament to resolve a legal impasse threatening a deal struck with the U.S. to hand over data from UBS clients, a minister was quoted as saying. The Swiss government had raised the option of parliament retroactively approving the deal, involving UBS clients suspected of…
EU lawmakers reject bank data deal with US
Aoife White of the Associated Press reports: The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers, allegedly to track funds supporting terror groups. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament’s president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly…
AU: Google baulks at Conroy’s call to censor YouTube
Asher Moses reports: Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” (RC) content rules. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google’s censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally….