European Commission: Internet censorship in China is unacceptable
European Commission has said in a statement that they believe that the Chinese government’s internet censorship attempts are unacceptable.
The commission said in a statement: “The aim of this internet filter, contrary to what Chinese authorities contend, is clearly to censor internet and limit freedom of expression. We therefore [...]
China requires PCs to ship with web filtering software!
Wall Street Journal has reported that the Chinese government has now made it compulsory for all machines sold in the country to ship with web filtering software.
This software is to be designed to block a pre-configured list of web services. Customers would not get access to the [...]
European Union to target Britain over privacy issues
European Union is all set to started legal action against Britain over privacy issues.
Britain is being targeted for not applying EU data privacy rules to protect their citizens.
The EU also warned that they might force social networking services like Facebook to hide information connected to their minor users [...]
Google limits YouTube access in South Korea
Google has now restricted web users from South Korea to post comments or upload videos on their YouTube service.
This step has been taken to avoid getting banned by the government which now requires popular web sites to verify the names of the users before letting them participate on their [...]
How to opt out of Google Interest Based Advertising Program
Search engine giant Google has just announced that they would soon start their Interest Based Advertising program.
This would enable the company to display ads to web users based on their interests.
The company would look at the user’s YouTube history and the kind of sites he visit [...]
UK considering ratings for websites
Britain’s minister for culture Andy Burnham has said that the government is considering a plan which would rate websites as per the content similar to how movies are rated.
The are considering collaborating with US government to draw up new international rules for English language websites.
Burnham said: “The more we seek [...]
Google sued in India for its Blogger service
Online privacy seems to be taking a hit in India as Google has now been sued by an Indian company to reveal the name of a blogger who they claim is defaming them.
Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects has filed the lawsuit asking the courts to order Google to [...]
YouTube to mask user information in data supplied to Viacom
Viacom and YouTube have agreed that the data provided to Viacom would have the user information masked.
Google owned YouTube service said in a blog post on this new development: “We remain committed to protecting your privacy and we’ll continue to fight for your right to share [...]
Facebook in privacy related issues in Canada
Canada’s federal privacy commissioner has revealed that they are now looking into the Facebook social networking platform for potential privacy related violations.
The complaint was filed by a group of students at the University of Ottawa who said that the service has committed 22 violations of the law.
One of the [...]
Blockbuster sued for privacy violation related to Facebook Beacon ad system
Cathryn Elaine Harris, of Dallas County, Texas has filed a privacy violation lawsuit against video rental company Blockbuster.
She is claiming that the company passed her personal information to the popular social networking service Facebook.
This information was passed to Facebook through their controversial Beacon advertising system.
Randy [...]
