The eagerly awaited interim publication of the Government report on the future of digital industries in Britain has suggested that ISPs should be forced to take part in Westminster’s snooping campaign.
According to the authors of ‘Digital Britain’, the UK Government should introduce legislation forcing internet service providers to gather information on customers engaged in illegal [...]

A former judge in California has been sentenced to 27 months in jail on Internet child abuse charges. The ground breaking thing about the case is that some of the evidence was provided by a Canadian hacker who planted a Trojan Horse on an Internet newsgroup visited by paedophiles that was then downloaded by 66-year-old [...]

When I visit a website and there are no contact details that place the company in a geographical area or names of company members I am always immediately suspicious of the legitimacy of the business. Transparency is something that has always split the web between those who are open and those who seem guarded.
There are [...]

Have a look at some of the big stories about the Internet so far this week. Here are a few headlines and links:
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score
Music industry to sue Yahoo China
UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site
Image-based spam on the rise
Yesterday, I promoted the opportunity for people to tell ICANN, the Internet’s [...]

With the US reviewing the role of ICANN at the end of July, it seems we all have a very small window of opportunity to have our own say on who should run the Internet and how.
Both ICANN and the NTIA - an arm of the US government’s department of commerce are illiciting the world’s [...]