The movement toward Certificate Transparency (CT) has brought about a healthy improvement, not only in the way organizations monitor and audit TLS certs, but also in cutting down the number of malicious or mistakenly issued certificates. CT, a framework developed by Google, works because Certificate Authorities are required to submit certificates to publicly accessible logs; …
British withdrawal from the European Union, also shortened to Brexit (a portmanteau of “British” or “Britain” and “exit”), happened last week. The result of this referendum was 51.9% in support of an exit (17,410,742 votes) and 48.1% (16,141,241 votes) to remain with a turnout of 72.2% and 26,033 rejected ballots. The European Union – often …
The mobile web is arguably in decline: users are spending more time on mobile devices, and more time in apps instead of web browsers. Apple has joined the app side of this battle (e.g. allowing ad blockers in Safari, encouraging app install smart banners above websites). Facebook has also taken the app side (e.g. encouraging …
Google is facing a potential record anti-trust or web search monopoly abuse fine of approximately 3 BILLION Euros (US$3.4 Billion) from the European Commission in the coming days, according to on.ine reports. After 7-years of the investigation, the European Commission filed anti-trust charges against Google last year for violating antitrust laws. The penalty sum would …
Flash’s ultimate demise has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow through another update that should be active by the last quarter of 2016. Last year, Google made a slight change that would enable Flash blocking on a very limited scale through “intelligently” pausing unnecessary content as a …
Google software engineer Milinda Perera said this week that the company is now rolling out an HTTPS version of every single blog stored away on the Blogspot domain. The security step means visitors may load up their favorite blog on this specific domain over an encrypted channel which will prevent any surveillance or eavesdroppers from …
For the first time in several years, residents of Pakistan can openly watch YouTube—just not the YouTube that the rest of the world is watching. Google, which purchased the video-streaming website in 2006, launched country-specific versions for Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on Tuesday. “YouTube is already available in Nepali, Sinhalese and Urdu, and now having country-specific …
Europe’s highest court on Tuesday struck down an international agreement that allowed companies to move digital information like people’s web search histories and social media updates between the European Union and the United States. The decision left the international operations of companies like Google and Facebook in a sort of legal limbo even as their …
Good has just opened a floodgate of new .xyz domain registrations, according to a blog by theDomains, The .XYZ registry got thrown into the world stage last night when Google announced the formation of a new parent company, Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. .XYZ got over 6,000 registrations yesterday including hundreds …
[Editors note: Please welcome Farzaneh Badii, from Hamburg University’s Graduate School in Law and Economics, who joins Syracuse University’s iSchool and the IGP as a Visiting Doctoral Student for the next six months.] “Lord, deliver us from all evil and from French state justice.”[1] This was the French farmers’ prayer once their parliament and state got …