In New Zealand, the Prime Minister just managed to pass a new law that legalizes the communications of its citizens to be monitored. At a time where PRISM and the various U.S. Internet monitoring programs keep on raising much controversy, the New Zealand government just adopted a law allowing its intelligence service called Government Communications
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset was heavily condemned by the U.S. court for downloading illegally a few music tracks on the internet and now lives with a fine of US$ 220,000 dollars on hers shoulders. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has continued its legal actions for years now is again trying to offer this mother
Read More...Google is warning about new forms of censorship. Although many believe that Google is a sort of Big Brother, the American company today shows its interest in transparency on the web: it does give an alert about the growing number of requests from governments and justice to remove Internet content or to request information about
Read More...The benefits of a VPN are numerous. Here are the 3 main ones that VPN providers offer: – Security The main function of a VPN is to secure your Internet connection. It creates a secure tunnel which is encrypted between your computer and Le VPN. Then any surfing occurs behind Le VPN tunnel. So, what
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The democratization of broadband Internet requires daily discharges of billions of data on the Internet, whether video, images, sounds, text, data…. submitted by individuals, companies and even government agencies. This is what we call the “big data”, a term that implies a bit of marketing but explains a reality: the amount of data sent, received
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The Chinese government is bringing a stricter control over the Web by addressing the topic of anonymity. A new law passed in 2012 requires Chinese end users to provide their real identity to access the Internet from any computer or mobile phone, but also to be able to use all the services that can publish
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Skype is one of the most popular services for chat and phone conversations over the Internet, appealing to 250 million monthly connected users: it is a great way to keep contacts with friends and family but also business contacts based far or even abroad. But in China, people’s phone and chat conversations in Skype can
Read More...Every day, millions of people connect to Facebook and Twitter, do shopping online or comment on articles on news websites and want to stay anonymous. These activities became quite common but leave traces and the user does not always measure the consequences of this: some personal information, such as the age, address and shopping habits are
Read More...To browse through the Internet from a ‘virtual private network’ or VPN for short, is like wearing a cloak of invisibility. There are a number of top-notch Internet browsing applications, especially constructed to make the surfer as safe as possible when using the Web. When employees access the Internet in their organisational roles, they are
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