Egypt this week introduced unexpected blocks against the websites of 5 of the most well-known VPN services in the industry. It should come as no surprise that 4 out of the 5 of the blocked sites offer completely free (albeit with restrictions) VPN services and are likely to be some of the most utilised across …
The Ninth Circuit has for the second time ruled [PDF] that “Google” isn’t a generic trademark. The US district court had already reached this conclusion in 2014. The court’s opinion delves deeply into definitions, says plainly that “verb use does not automatically constitute generic use.” This eviscerates the plaintiff’s case because, as Judge Watford says …
George DeCesare, Kaiser Permanente Chief Technology Risk Officer, speaking at the Privacy & Security Forum in San Francisco on Thursday May 11, said “Seventy-five percent of the healthcare industry is below the cybersecurity poverty line,” DeCesare said at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Privacy & Security Forum. It’s going to become more important than …
Although net neutrality it’s a topic that doesn’t stir much interest in your average consumer, those who have opinions hold them very strongly and is it turning nasty? Verizon vice president in charge of what is called “public policy” (i.e., lobbying), Craig Sillman says a lot of these public policy” advocates, like Free Press and Fight for …
Chrome and Firefox developers in an attempt to find a balance between showing internationalized domain names and protecting users from phishing are sounding an alarm that phishing attacks that using internationalised domains are hard to block. The latest version of Google Chrome, released earlier this week, restricts how domain names that use non-Latin characters are …
The German government has announced new plans to force social media sites to delete hate speech and fake news. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Facebook and Twitter had failed to regulate themselves. The new measures come two years after Maas’ department created a task force to crack down on “illegal hate speech on the internet,” …
The fate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) future was the subject of a big debate when the NetMundial initiative was proposed and for a while it looked as if the IGF was going to fold, however in Early 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the UN General Assembly to renew the …
Silicon Valley companies are stepping a fight with the Trump administration. On Sunday night, technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and many others filed a legal brief opposing the administration’s contentious entry ban. The move represents a rare coordinated action across a broad swath of the industry — about a hundred companies …
ICANN Spent a whooping $32 million on the IANA transition process for the period March 2014 to December 2016 , this is according to a presentation released last week. $15 Million went to “External Legal Advice”, $8.3 million went to third-party services, that included lobbying, puclic relattions and translation. In the period from July 2014 up …
Reports state that for over a week now, the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon have not had any access to the internet which appear to have been cut in the major towns of the country’s two English-speaking regions. But details surrounding the internet shutdown continue to emerge slowly, showing a government intent on controlling …