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Facebook now charges you for messages sent to celebrities and people you aren’t friends with - 9 avril 2013
The ’priority messages’ system has been introduced to the UK after successful US trial
acebook has started charging UK users up to £10 to send messages to celebrities and people they aren’t friends with.
The social networking giant says the moves are to stop users being bombarded with messages from strangers. (...)
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Lobbyists’ demands were ’copied into law by MEPs’ - 14 février 2013
Sensitive personal information risks being left vulnerable to hoarding and misuse by banks, retailers and insurance companies due to three British MEPs accused of directly inserting major firms’ suggestions into EU laws, according to privacy campaigners warning of the most intense lobbying effort ever seen in the (...)
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British internet users’ personal information on major ’cloud’ storage services can be spied upon routinely by US authorities - 30 janvier 2013
All personal information stored by British internet users on major "cloud" computing services including Google Drive can be spied upon routinely without their knowledge by US authorities under newly-approved legislation, it can be disclosed.
Cloud computing has exploded in recent years as a flexible, cheap way (...)
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Ministers reject automatic web porn filter - 15 décembre 2012
Ministers have rejected calls for internet providers to be forced to automatically filter websites for online pornography.
A joint report by the Home Office and the Department for Education said that a public consultation found "little appetite" for default filtering by internet service providers (ISPs).
Under (...)
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Google boss : I’m very proud of our tax avoidance scheme - 13 décembre 2012
Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt said £2.5 billion tax avoidance ’is called capitalism’
The head of the internet giant Google has defiantly defended his company’s tax avoidance strategy claiming he was “proud” of the steps it had taken to cut its tax bill which were just “capitalism”.
In an interview in New York Eric (...)
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Clashes over Internet regulation during UN talks - 3 décembre 2012
Concerns raised by tech giants that new rules could be used by China and Russia to justify further online monitoring
The head of the UN’s telecommunication overseers sought Monday to quell worries about possible moves toward greater Internet controls during global talks in Dubai, but any attempts for increased Web (...)
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Tajikistan blocks Facebook access to silence critics of president - 28 novembre 2012
Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading "mud and slander" about veteran President Imomali Rakhmon and officials in the Central Asian republic.
The ban on the popular social networking site is the latest crackdown on dissent in Tajikistan a year before an election that (...)
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EU accused of pushing anti-piracy Agreement through back-door - 6 septembre 2012
The European Union has been accused of trying to push through a controversial deal, which would force internet service providers to hand over the personal details of anyone suspected of infringing copyright online, by the back door.
Leaked documents show that the most hotly contested sections of the (...)
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EU accused of pushing anti-piracy Agreement through back-door - 10 juillet 2012
The European Union has been accused of trying to push through a controversial deal, which would force internet service providers to hand over the personal details of anyone suspected of infringing copyright online, by the back door.
Leaked documents show that the most hotly contested sections of the (...)
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Google alarm at European censorship - 19 juin 2012
The governments of Western democracies are increasingly demanding political content be removed from the internet in a "troubling" sign of the state of free speech, according to online search giant Google.
While the company has always received politically motivated requests to take down information, it said the (...)
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Landmark ruling forces Facebook to drag cyberbullies into the open - 10 juin 2012
A woman who was subjected to "vicious and depraved" abuse on Facebook has won a High Court legal battle to have her tormentors exposed, in a case believed to be among the first in Britain.
Nicola Brookes, 45, was targeted on the social networking website after she posted a comment supporting the former X Factor (...)
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Facebook children ban could be lifted - 5 juin 2012
Faced with slowing growth in its advertising business, Facebook is considering throwing open its social network to children, in the hope that their parents will pay for games and other content on the site.
The plan is also designed to limit the company’s legal risk over the already-widespread use of the site by (...)
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Thailand : Editor Chiranuch Premchaiporn sentenced over royal posts - 31 mai 2012
A website editor was given an eight-month suspended jail sentence for failing quickly to remove posts deemed offensive to the monarchy. The case adds to a growing debate over Thailand’s draconian laws against insulting the royal family.
The Bangkok Criminal Court ruled yesterday that posts on the Prachatai news (...)
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State pressure blamed for new censorship on China’s Twitter - 29 mai 2012
Weibo users to face tighter restrictions on ’spreading rumours’ and ’insulting the nation’
Social media users in China face tighter controls after the introduction of new rules aimed at preventing the spread of online rumours on Sina Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter.
The service, which has 300 million members, (...)
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McDonald’s counters critics with bloggers - 7 mai 2012
McDonald’s is assembling an army of a million burger-friendly bloggers to tackle critics like Jamie Oliver, the campaigning chef.
A group of 400 bloggers, who are also fans of the fast-food chain, are reportedly given free gifts and all-expenses-paid parties in exchange for favourable blogs about the firm online. (...)
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Google profit misses as expenses surge - 17 juillet 2010
Google missed Wall Street’s quarterly profit estimates for the first time in two years after a spike in expenses offset a 24 per cent revenue jump, but it vowed to keep investing in new businesses to drive long-term growth.
Shares of the Internet search engine leader fell almost 4 per cent on worries about rising (...)
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Clampdown rumoured as China "Twitter" sites down - 17 juillet 2010
Chinese social networking websites that provide Twitter-like services have suddenly reverted to testing mode and access has been spotty amid reports of a government clampdown.
Although Twitter has been banned for more than a year in China, Chinese Internet companies have been quick to fill the void, providing (...)
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Rivalries and economy cloud Google expectations - 17 juillet 2010
Investors have muted expectations for Google’s second-quarter results, as economic clouds and shifts in the company’s strategy dampened hopes that it will beat Wall Street estimates.
At least three analysts have cut financial estimates for Google in the run up to its second-quarter earnings report due late (...)
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’Climate emails hacked by spies’ - 4 février 2010
Interception bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency, says expert
A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government’s former chief (...)
