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…
U.S. web-tracking plan stirs privacy fears
The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with “cookies” and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups. A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet…
Judge lifts ban on identification of Baby P’s mother
The reporting restrictions which protected the identity of the mother of Baby Peter were lifted today after a ruling by a high court judge who said it was a necessary move to maintain public confidence in the judicial system. The decision by Mr Justice Coleridge to withdraw the protection of anonymity from Tracey Connelly and…
Pirate Bay to seek Dutch retrial
The operators of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay are to launch a legal challenge to a Dutch court order temporarily banning the site’s activities. “We will file a summons by August 25th” before the district court in Amsterdam, lawyer Ernst Louwers, acting for The Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde,…