Tag: Internet

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  UK planning strict rules and code of practice to tackle “online harms” in Internet sites

  

  Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans. The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport has proposed an independent watchdog and a code of practice that tech companies would have to follow.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Internet inventor says the web is “plunging downwards to a dysfunctional future”

  

  Global action is required to tackle the web's “downward plunge to a dysfunctional future”, its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC. He made the comments in an exclusive interview to mark 30 years since he submitted his proposal for the web. Sir Tim said people had realized how their data could be “manipulated” after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

• Monday, March 11th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Thousands protest in Russia against plans to tighten restrictions on internet

  

  Thousands of people in Russia have protested against plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet. A mass rally in Moscow and similar demonstrations in two other cities were called after parliament backed the controversial bill last month.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  Dr. Larry Roberts creator of ARPA, forerunner of Internet has died

  

  United States scientist Larry Roberts who helped design and build the forerunner of the internet has died aged 81. In the late 1960s, he ran the part of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) given the job of creating a computer network called Arpanet.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:13 UTC

  Facebook documents related to privacy breaches, seized by the UK Parliament

  

  The UK Parliament used a rarely-used procedure to compel an app developer to seize a number of internal Facebook documents related to the company’s decision-making process preceding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, reports The Guardian. The documents reportedly contain “significant revelations” about the decisions that set the stage for the Cambridge Analytica case.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Twitter deletes automated accounts discouraging people from voting in US midterm elections

  

  Twitter has deleted an estimated 10,000 automated accounts that were posting messages discouraging people from taking part in next week's US mid-term elections.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 22:50 UTC

  Internet Blackout against student cheating in Algeria

  

  Algerian authorities shot down the internet access for two hours on Wednesday, coinciding with the start of high school diploma exams, the first in a series of internet blackouts to stop students cheating, AFP journalists in Algiers reports.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Brazil wants rules for internet data flows and takes the case to the WTO

  

  Brazil is pushing for the establishment of rules around Internet data flows and has presented a document on the subject to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to stress the urgency of starting a more objective debate. Amid concerns over Facebook's use of tracking users with pixels, Brazil joins the Netherlands, France, and EC in legal moves.

• Friday, December 15th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  Internet neutrality repealed; legal challenges from consumer advocates announced

  

  The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to repeal sweeping 2015 net neutrality rules, in a move that gives internet service providers a free hand to slow or block websites and apps as they see fit, or charge more for faster speeds. The approval of FCC chairman Ajit Pai's proposal marked a victory for internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon Communications and could recast the digital landscape.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2017 - 18:50 UTC

  Internet influential figures write to US Congress in support of “net neutrality”

  

  Several influential figures responsible for creating the internet have demanded that a controversial vote to be cancelled. This week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will decide on whether to repeal an Obama-era law that protects “net neutrality”. This refers to the principle that all traffic on the internet is treated equally. The pioneers said the FCC did not know what it was doing.