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Yahoo! fights China human rights suit
News spokeswoman said the company is a strong believer in human rights and it respects freedom of expression and privacy around the world. The case hinges on a lawsuit filed in April in the US District... [28 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.09.06
Round-Up If we promise you this week's Round-Up contains amazing stories of intrigue and scandal will you first sit through an interesting tale about a Freedom of Information... [08 Sep 2006]
Google denounced over search data request refusal
News The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging Copa, arguing that websites cannot realistically comply with it and that the law violates the right to freedom of speech mandated by the First Amendment. [27 Feb 2006]
Google fights US gov't request for search data
News ACLU said websites cannot realistically comply with Copa and that the law violates the right to freedom of speech mandated by the First Amendment. The Bush administration's request, first reported by The... [20 Jan 2006]
Leader: Data protection watchdog needs more bite
Leader Then we learn that the ICO has resolved less than half of the complaints made about public bodies failing to answer requests for information made under the Freedom of... [13 Jan 2006]
Spam appeal gets Supreme Court knock-back
News In February 2003, White Buffalo legally obtained a list of all of the university's "non-confidential, non-exempt" email addresses by filing a Freedom of... [11 Jan 2006]
Texas singles spammer was wrong, court rules
News White Buffalo, an Austin, Texas, start-up that boasts of making "a ton of moolah" by promoting relationship-based websites, began its bulk email campaign in February 2003 by filing a... [04 Aug 2005]
Apple vs the media - and ISPs, now
News The 36-page brief was authored by Grant Penrod of the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press and signed by the Associated Press, the California First Amendment Coalition, the... [12 Apr 2005]
Techies hamstrung by bosses on Freedom of Information
News The hugely significant Freedom of Information Act will come into force on 1 January 2005, requiring all government bodies to comply with its terms - but, according to... [18 Oct 2004]
US court rejects web porn law
News This decision is unusual because it's the second time the 3rd Circuit has rejected COPA as violating the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression. The Child Online Protection... [07 Mar 2003]
Bush signs Homeland Security bill - the details
News Another addition, which was opposed by open government activists and journalist groups, says that information that businesses give the department that's related to "critical infrastructure" will not be subject to the... [26 Nov 2002]
FBI fouls up 11 September email investigation
News The documents were made public under the US Freedom of Information Act after privacy group Epic threatened to take the government to court in order to... [29 May 2002]
Thus opens a can of worms
Comment At the time, it said that forcing it to do so would "effect the entire ethos of freedom of speech on the internet and leave UK businesses lagging behind the rest of the... [23 Feb 2001]
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