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News Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-software-piracy group. But now the BSA is investigating 41 firms after a 20-fold...
[07 Feb 2008]
News Amnesty International UK is launching a mobile payments system to handle donations of up to £800. A spokeswoman for Amnesty International said payments via PSMS are also capped at £4.50 and this was not an appropriate or convenient rate for Amnesty...
[27 Feb 2007]
News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online. Speaking at the annual awards dinner held last week by the Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa), Amnesty's campaigns director, Tim...
[20 Feb 2007]
News Similarly, Amnesty International has sent a delegation to the Internet Governance Forum in Athens to emphasise the need for protecting free speech. Steve Ballinger, part of Amnesty's delegation, said: "The Internet Governance Forum needs to know...
[30 Oct 2006]
News betrayed their values and colluded with government censorship in China in pursuit of lucrative revenue opportunities, according to human rights charity Amnesty International. has been singled out as the worst offender by Amnesty for allowing its...
[20 Jul 2006]
News In May 2002, Ford Motor company in Dagenham was forced to announce an amnesty on pornographic and other inappropriate emails, and in September 2000 Orange sacked 40 people for sending pornography over the internet.
[22 Jun 2006]
News Sensenbrenner asks the attorney general, for instance, to respond to points raised in a 30 January letter sent by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International and People for the American Way.
[09 Feb 2006]
News Amnesty International representative Amy O'Meara said the human rights organisation welcomed Smith's suggestion of industry-wide standards for handling oppressive government regulations but felt that Microsoft's move represented only a "very small...
[01 Feb 2006]
News Amnesty International has hit out at Google over the search giant's agreement to 'collude' with the Chinese government and aid the authorities in censoring the internet. Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty International, said: "Google must stop...
[27 Jan 2006]
Round-Up Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty International, said: "Google and other companies must stop colluding with the Chinese government in restricting people's rights to freedoms of opinion, expression and information.
[27 Jan 2006]
whitepaper While the growth in collections was somewhat exaggerated by a tax amnesty in California, much of it was the result of improving tax bases and not from legislated tax increases. States had a good quarter of state tax revenue growth in January-March...
[07 Jul 2005]
News According to a report in the Jakarta Post, Microsoft is offering the government an amnesty of $1 per pirated copy of Windows and a promise from the administration it will buy legally. However, according to a report in the Seattle Times, a US...
[10 Jun 2005]
News The only Citrix exec in the auditorium at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre to dodge the BlackBerry amnesty was CEO Mark Templeton - "because I'm the boss", he explained - who praised the great strides taken in connectivity and the...
[07 Jun 2005]
News Human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the sentence and is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of four other Syrians currently being held on similar charges. In a public statement Amnesty it considers the trial to be...
[21 Jun 2004]
News But all the more reason to take advantage of such an amnesty. The Business Software Alliance has issued a reminder to UK businesses that they have until 26 March to return a completed software audit in order to escape legal action as part of the...
[17 Mar 2004]
News Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to censor the internet.
[02 Feb 2004]
News The group also said that 1,054 people have submitted applications for amnesty under the group's 'Clean Slate' programme. The Recording Industry Association of America said on Wednesday it had sued another 41 people in its ongoing legal campaign...
[04 Dec 2003]
News Human rights group Amnesty International has slammed the Vietnamese government for jailing at least 10 people for online activitism, saying the government is using national security legislation to prosecute government criticism on the web.
[28 Nov 2003]
News The RIAA also said it had received 1,000 applications for amnesty from lawsuits under its 'Clean Slate' program. The Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday said it filed 80 new lawsuits against alleged file swappers, a move that...
[31 Oct 2003]
Leader The BSA in a show of compassion earlier this year offered a virtual amnesty to companies who have broken the terms of a licence. "But I didn't read the small print on my licence. But the licences are so complicated.
[22 Oct 2003]
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