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Google excludes controversial sites
News Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
Update for controversial network security tool
News SAINT is based on Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema's controversial security scanning tool SATAN but is developed and supported by WWDSI. It scans networked machines and reports which services -- e.g.http, ftp, finger and NFS -- are available...
[February 1, 1999, 17:40]
France passes controversial antipiracy bill
News The legislation has proven to be quite controversial in France and throughout the world. The French National Assembly ignored a vote last week by the European Parliament and approved its "Création et Internet" three-strikes bill on Tuesday.
[May 13, 2009, 11:06]
Attorney general takes controversial Act on tour
News Attorney general John Ashcroft has embarked on an unusual nationwide tour to drum up support for the controversial USA Patriot Act. Enacted six weeks after the 11 September, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the law permits police to...
[August 21, 2003, 11:15]
Google excludes controversial sites
Talkback Excluding hate sites is an excellent idea. However consumer complaint site against corporations should never be excluded.
[November 4, 2003, 1:54]
If you fancy running a controversial website...
Blog Comment Netcetera are indeed spineless - and they're not alone. It seems that almost any quack, charlatan, snake-oil salesman or Awful Poo Lady can silence critics by waving a writ at their ISPs - and down they come.
[February 21, 2008, 17:04]
If you fancy running a controversial website...
Blog Comment - goodbye Netecetera ? who would host with them now ? Ah I guess they worked out there are more quack sites than anti-quack sites and they don't mind taking the dishonest money. Maybe they will do something to redeem themselves.
[March 19, 2008, 6:59]
If you fancy running a controversial website...
Blog .you might like to think twice before signing up with Netcetera for hosting purposes. There was an amusingly caustic site called Quackometer, which specialised in spotting and publicising, well, quackery.
[February 19, 2008, 23:28]
Red Hat defends controversial patent applications
News Linux distributor Red Hat has published a clarification of its policy on software patents, defending itself against criticism of the company's patents policy. Red Hat, which has the biggest market share of any Linux distributor, came under fire...
[May 31, 2002, 16:57]
Oftel unveils controversial ADSL plans
News Oftel has released its official guidelines for unbundling the local loop, but the rules appear to contravene a European Community directive. Oftel itself admits the draft guidelines are "basically sticking to the original plan" for unbundling, with...
[August 1, 2000, 12:25]
Samsung bets on controversial memory standard
News Samsung has begun shipping engineering samples of 200MHz double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, or DDR400, in spite of doubts over whether the PC infrastructure industry will ever widely adopt the standard.
[March 19, 2002, 17:22]
University bans controversial links
News The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organisation to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act. School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe...
[September 26, 2002, 11:56]
EU agreement on communications snooping 'unlikely'
News The Telecommunications Council in Brussels today will discuss the controversial draft directive on data protection and privacy in the electronic communications sector, but is unlikely to reach a common position.
[June 27, 2001, 13:19]
'Secret' RFID test draws consumer ire
News Wal-Mart Stores and Procter & Gamble quietly tested a controversial new retail technology earlier this year that allowed P&G employees to observe shoppers via a Webcam as they removed cosmetics from shelves, representatives of both companies...
[November 17, 2003, 10:50]
Government ordered to release secret ID card report
News The UK's data protection watchdog has ordered the government to release a controversial secret report detailing the costs, benefits and risks of introducing ID cards. Following the DWP's refusal to release the controversial report, the MP...
[June 9, 2006, 16:05]
Intel admits PII serial confusion
News Chip giant Intel Corp.admitted on Wednesday that its controversial processor serial number had been inadvertently included in one of its lines of mobile Pentium II processors. However, one line failed to disable the controversial feature.
[March 11, 1999, 9:32]
US Copyright Office wakes up to flaws in anti-hacking law
News Federal copyright regulators are opening the door for new exceptions to a controversial copyright law that has landed one publisher in court and a Russian programmer in jail. This is only the second time in the controversial law's five-year history...
[October 14, 2002, 10:13]
2000 Roundup: Privacy under attack
News The government passed one of its most controversial pieces of surveillance legislation ever during 2000 while the FBI revealed its own online snooping tools. The tool was so controversial that the US congress called for a review of its capabilities.
[December 30, 2000, 6:13]
Rambus slapped with FTC antitrust suit
News The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust suit against Rambus on Wednesday, alleging that the controversial memory-chip designer deliberately deceived the industry by not disclosing its patent plans to a standards body.
[June 20, 2002, 9:40]
Court blocks DVD-cracking suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. The ruling, released by the court on Monday...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
