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An influential group of MPs and peers has said the government’s approach to illegal file-sharing could breach the rights of internet users.
The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights said the government’s Digital Economy Bill needed clarification.
It said that technical measureswhich include cutting off persistent pirateswere not “sufficiently specified”.
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The US Department of Justice has said that it is still not satisfied with a deal that would allow search giant Google to build a vast digital library.
It said the plan failed to address antitrust and copyright concerns.
It echoes objections by online retailer Amazon, which has said that Google’s ...
A 17-year old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update.
The February update for Windows will close the loophole that involves the venerable DOS operating system.
First appearing in Windows NT 3.1, the vulnerability has been carried over into almost every version of Windows that ...
The BBC News series on British computer pioneers and pioneering British computers continues with a look at Edsac.
The Edsac computer is notable for many things including being the first computer designed for serious scientific use and for kicking off the use of machines in business.
But it must be unique ...
Campaigns to save the job of an Australian banker caught viewing erotic images in the background of a live TV interview are growing on the internet.
Business website Here Is The City News has launched a Save Dave section, in support of Macquarie banker David Kiely, who reportedly could be fired. ...
Libya must stop blocking access to opposition websites and internet pages such as YouTube, US-based Human Rights Watch has warned.
The activists say Tripoli began a crackdown on 24 January, blocking several foreign-based sites reporting on Libya, and the entire YouTube site.
“The government is returning to the dark days of ...
In the first case of its kind, an Australian court has ruled that an internet service provider cannot be responsible for illegal downloading.
iiNet, Australia’s third largest ISP, was taken to court by a group of 34 movie production houses.
The group included the Australian divisions of Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers ...
The group behind the world’s most popular smartphone operating systemSymbianis giving away “billions of dollars” worth of code for free.
The Symbian Foundation’s decision to make its code open source means that any organisation or individual can now use and modify it “for any purpose”.
Symbian has shipped in more than ...
A US study has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication.
The number of 12 to 17-year-olds in the US who blog has halved to 14% since 2006, according to a survey for the Pew Internet and American ...
The international carbon market has been hit by a phishing attack which saw an estimated 250,000 permits worth over 3 million euros stolen this week.
The scam involves six German companies and meant emissions trading registries in a number of EU countries shut down temporarily on 2 February.
In the global ...
An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.
Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats.
But the application has also faced protests from Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors who described it as offensive.
IMussolini, as the application ...
One million people downloaded Nokia’s free navigation software during the first week of its launch, the company claims.
Ovi Maps have been downloaded 1.4m times overall since the application became available on January 21 2010.
It has been most popular in China, Italy, the UK, Germany and Spain
The service provides ...
The proposed merger between mobile phone firms Orange and T-Mobile in the UK could come under further scrutiny over fears it will harm competition.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has been looking at whether it should consider how the tie-up will affect UK phone users.
It says its initial view ...
Twitter has identified a scheme that uses compromised file-sharing sites to steal the log on information of users.
The service said it had discovered a number of compromised “torrent” sites that had been set up specifically to skim usernames and passwords.
Torrent sites acts as indexes of links to TV, film ...
More than 4,400 people were caught cheating in last year’s GCSEs and A-levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the exams watchdog says.
Figures from Ofqual show a 6% rise in cheating by candidates although the body points out cheating is still very rare, affecting 0.03% of exams taken.
The main ...