The Wall Street Journal writes today about U.S. companies that make web blocking and filtering software being used in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait…

Yesterday, we talked about Google's Gmail service going down in China. Google reported it at the same time as they pointed out that everything…

Chinese Gmail users are experiencing significant delays if not flat out inaccessibility lately and Google says it's coming from the government. T…

Just so we're straight on terms: a botnet is a network of infected computers remotely controlled by an operator to do things their owners don't…

A new law being sought by the European Union would demand that websites permanently delete all data held about a user if that user requests that…

Twitter has joined Facebook and a few other sites in offering a higher level of security for users. Twitter users can now opt for https setting on…

The Senate Commerce Committee holds a hearing today at 10am Eastern on the State of Online Consumer Privacy. Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D…

New feature on the search engine lets you block sites you don't want to see so they'll never come up again in your searches. You'll need a Google …

Facebook has built a page for reporting suicidal content that people see on the site. It's a form where you fill in the url where you spotted it,…

The reason? A fake name. The blogger/commentator is knows as Michael Anti. While it's not the name on his national identity card, Michael has used…