Firefox’s tracker-killing private browsing mode hits beta
Mozilla’s all-new ”stealth mode” for Firefox is one step closer to becoming a standard feature of the popular web browser. The latest Firefox Beta …
Sweden seizes Pirate Bay web domains
A Stockholm court on Tuesday seized the Swedish web domains of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay over repeated copyright violations in a bid to …
Sending Liability Up The Stack: Domain Registrars Potentially Liable For Infringement By End Users
For quite some time now, we’ve been concerned about the continued expansion of “secondary liability” concepts, adding more and more liability for copyright infringement …
Facebook Offers $300K to Winners if Internet Security Prize 2015
Are you among the many advocates who intend to help make the world wide web a better and safer place for netizens? Facebook has …
Google Has Received Nearly 145,000 Requests to Be ‘Forgotten’
Thousands of Europeans are scrambling to take advantage of a new legal right to force Google to delete search results about them. Since the …
Tim Cook explains Apple’s privacy policies in open letter
Just days after Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the company’s privacy record with Charlie Rose, Apple has published a new privacy policy that explains …
From reddit to Pornhub, Websites Slow Down for Net Neutrality on September 10
You know the net neutrality conversation is breaking new ground when even the porn sites are weighing in. And that’s just what we’re seeing: …
Reddit, Kickstarter, and others plan net neutrality ‘day of action’ on September 10th
As the FCC prepares to close public comments on its net neutrality proposal, major internet companies are organizing a protest to raise awareness. Reddit, …
Net neutrality opponents are taking a page out of their rivals’ grassroots playbook
If there’s one thing the Internet is good at, it’s galvanizing Web users to action with a good David-and-Goliath story. For months, advocates of …
US Government Is Paying To Undermine Internet Security, Not To Fix It
The Heartbleed computer security bug is many things: a catastrophic tech failure, an open invitation to criminal hackers and yet another reason to upgrade …
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