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Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg is widely quoted today as saying that the recent changes to privacy settings were that they "just missed the mark." But his proposal does not meet the issues of confidentiality that personal safety an...

Many US internet companies think they are protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act but not only is the Act not as protective within the USA as they think, outside the US publishers are not being given such carte blanche as Google has ju...

It's probably not the most ridiculous spam scam ever, but surely it must be close. This scammer subscribes to the theory that more is, well, more. If there was any chance that a victim would be convinced by including the kitchen sink, then that...

It's six years since the EU required all member states to put n place laws to combat spam. And it's six years this month since the UK's law came into effect. Is it working? And what about the USA's Can Spam Act?

London's Metropolitan Police (which polices the Capital excluding the City of London) has investigated and, in one move, closed 1,219 websites for marketing goods using illegal copies of trademarks.

A 20,000 km cable called The Asia-America Gateway is to be turned on next month. For those who suffer interminable delays in web traffic, the new...

The USA's tolerance of "religious freedom" is tested daily. It's not about architecture, but rather it's about what constitutes a churc...

News from Central Bank of India (a state-owned commercial bank), REV, a payment services provider and MasterCard raises the intriguing prospect o...

In part II of this article, Nigel Morris-Cotterill looks at file-sharing and attempts to stop it.

Australia's third largest internet service provider, iiNet, is accused of wilfully facilitating the downloading of copyright material in a case b...