Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks is getting legal help to fight an attempt to keep it offline.
Freedom of speech and digital rights groups plan to argue on its behalf at a legal hearing on 29 February.
The hearing will decide whether to continue a court order that removed links to some of...
Four men who run one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in Sweden.
The Pirate Bay's servers do not store copyrighted material but offer links to the download location of films, TV programmes, albums and software.
The...
Received a reply from my host. See reply below:
Please note the WHOIS privacy is only available for most non-.uk domain name
extensions. Nominet (the operators of the .uk registry) only allow the hiding of
your address if you're using your website for non-commercial purposes. This can be...
Hi
As you are aware it is easy to grab hold of domain owner details by accessing sites such as Who is.
Does anyone know of any add ons which allow you to hide this info. My hosting company offers this for £8.99 as a one off payment (per domain I think)
What are your thoughts on this?
Google has kicked off a project to create an authoritative store of information about any and every topic.
The search giant has already started inviting people to write about the subject on which they are known to be an expert.
Google said it would not act as editor for the project but...
A copyright row means that one of the most ambitious fan films ever made may never be shown before an audience.
Four years in the planning Damnatus, made by German fans of the Warhammer 40,000 game, cost more than 10,000 euros, took months to film, employs 11 principal actors, dozens of...
Do you think the law may have a great part to play in this?
I heard sometime ago that the Goverment asked Search Engines including Google to keep search data for longer??
Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report.
Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as "hostile" to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data.
The group said Google was leading a "race to the bottom" among net...
People will pay more for goods if a website does a good job of protecting their privacy, a study shows.
The Carnegie Mellon study looked at what shoppers do when they are told what sites do with personal data.
It suggests that shoppers will pay a premium equal to about $0.60 (30p) on goods...
Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns.
The Article 29 group, made up of data...
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