FCC chairman calls on ISPs to adopt new security measures
Network World
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Reddit's SOPA and ACTA alternative: The Free Information Act
Death and Taxes
that nothing has “escaped this fate,” except the “digital domain known as the Internet.” The drafters then lay out the various reasons that no nation can claim sovereignty over cyberspace, including: everyone has a hand in creating the internet's ...

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The Social Reformers' definition of life: Demeaning the "Sanctity of Life" for ...
Beaufort Observer
Wade decision, which held that abortion is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution under an implied right to privacy and thus established the notion of abortion-on-demand. The 1973 US Supreme Court announced nationalized abortion law, ...

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Unified Google policy raises privacy issues
Hartford Business
While being perceived as different, all Google accounts, paid and free, are under the same policy. Company administrators of paid Google services (known as the 'domain administrators') have always had access to their user accounts and information, ...

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Amazon buys Prime.xxx domain name
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com has picked up the domain name Prime.xxx, an interesting (likely defensive) domain name registration. The company's Amazon Prime program has millions of members. It started out offering free two day shipping for $79 a year.

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Amazon Cloud Users Get SunGard Disaster Recovery Option
InformationWeek
SunGard will leverage Amazon's Direct Connect service, which gives Amazon infrastructure increased privacy by offering private line, LAN-like connections between US East-1 and the unnamed SunGard data center. The link gives a SunGard or Amazon customer ...

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iPhone App Privacy: Path, Facebook, Twitter And Apple Under Scrutiny For ...
Huffington Post
The LA Times has that story and notes that you can use to remove your personal contacts from Twitter's domain at any time on this page. It is clear, however, given Rep. Waxman's letter, that what Apple and app developers are required to disclose now is ...

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Britain's position on Internet freedom not absolutist: Minister
The Hindu
Mr. Browne, who felt that the Internet and social media were a great force for good, cited the Arab world where there were curbs on individual freedoms to argue that the most likely way that the people there would become free over time would be not ...

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Internet laws a sledgehammer approach to privacy
Sydney Morning Herald
Such a power would have been an unconscionable threat to free speech. Yet SOPA is not alone. The internet is surprisingly vulnerable to laws that, with good intentions or bad, have the potential to stifle online liberties.

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Jackson Walker Elects 11 New Partners
PR.com (press release)
Dallas, TX, February 10, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Susan D. Ayers, Austin, has experience in civil litigation and appeals in state and federal courts in cases involving land use issues, eminent domain, personal injury, wrongful death, toxic tort, free speech, ...