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SocNets Poised to Follow Email Down Spam Path

Social networking sites are increasingly becoming a prime target for spammers - a point driven home recently by the massive $711 million judgment Facebook was awarded against the so-called "king of spam" Sanford Wallace. Spam has been a staple of most email inboxes for years - and has made it increasingly difficult for legitimate marketers' messages to reach their intended audience. Its volumes have   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 2nd 2009

NY Governor Proposes iPod Tax

Hoping to expedite the close of the state's $15 billion budget gap, New York Governor David Paterson is proposing a tax on music and other downloads made online. To download online content from a site like iTunes, for example, users must create an account with a billing address, so additional fees to New York residents can be applied with relative ease, observes the New York   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 17th 2008

Aussie Gov't to Pilot Nationwide 'Net Filter

The Australian government is moving forward with plans to implement a nationwide online filter of objectionable material. The filter is one component of an $82 million cybersafety effort to protect children from exploitation and discourage adults from downloading illegal content, including terrorist materials or child pornography,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

GOP Unhappy Over Use of Its Trademarks in CafePress Merchandise

The Republican National Committee (RNC) plans to sue CafePress for permitting vendors to sell unlicensed Republican merchandise, including shirts and stickers that portray the Grand Old Party elephant -- even if those portrayals are positive. CafePress.com enables users to "brand" shirts, caps, stickers and other items, then sell them in their own CafePress online stores. "Please cease and desist from allowing vendors to utilize the federally registered trademarks of the RNC or we will be   [...]
Posted: Friday, July 18th 2008

Facebook May Face Class Action Suit, Fueled by Canadian Law School Students

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has filed a privacy complaint against Facebook, asserting it violates the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. "Facebook does not make a reasonable effort to advise users of the purposes for which their personal information is used," the group wrote. "Facebook also does not advise users of the extent of their personal information that will be shared by joining a network." Facebook spokesmen denied tha  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 2nd 2008

Olympics Channel Launches Amid Strikes in Beijing, Torch Trouble in Paris

The NewsMarket debuted the Beijing 2008 Olympics Channel today. The destination will provide free news content about the Beijing games in both English and Chinese. It will also include video for use by journalists and bloggers. The page went live despite drama about the pending state of internet access over the course of the Games. According to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th 2008

MySpace Bug Unearths 'Private' Photos

A MySpace bug was discovered last week that allows anyone to view photos set private by the user, including users who mark themselves "under age 14," which automatically renders their profiles private to anyone outside their networks. The loophole was discussed on message boards as far back as three months. Wired cites an October forum exchange between two self-described "pedo soldiers" who  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd 2008

Tax on Internet, Mobile May Replace French TV Ads

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed a bill that bans commercials on public television and taxes internet and mobile phone service, reports the International Herald Tribune. On abolishing advertising on public TV, Sarkozy said channels "could be financed by a tax on advertising revenues of private broadcasters and an infinitesimal tax on the revenues of new means of communication like Internet  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th 2008

WikiScanner Unleashes Much Ado About Propaganda on Wikipedia

Government agencies have been pinned as the origins of more than 11,000 changes to articles over Wikipedia.com, according to The Globe and Mail. The information appeared after yesterday's news on the Wiki  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 16th 2007

Scanner Tool Unearths Corporate Roots Behind Wikipedia Edits

The anonymity the internet provides is a two-way street: though it allows complete freedom, it contributes to the wild west that is the web, more often than not. Wikipedia Scanner hopes to alter that trend, at least a little. Wikipedia Scanner traces IP addresses, revealing occasionally disturbing, though unsurprising, evidence on what kind of people are making changes on company wiki pages: oftentimes, the companie  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 15th 2007

Malaysia Tightens Fist Around Political Bloggers

The government of Malaysia has just released a statement informing citizens that anti-terrorism laws could be effected against bloggers that insult the country's king or the religion of Islam. The BBC reports that Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of a political website and a major online personality in Malaysia, was questioned by police after the government filed a complaint against him. The anti-terr  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 27th 2007

Russia, Estonia Face First Cyberwar, US Enters Fray

The cyberattack that Estonia suffered last May, culminating in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the country's major websites, has spawned some response from the US, reports ArsTechnica. The US has sent an investigative team to Estonia to help analyze a large volume of data generated by the attacks to help train Estonian IT workers in securing   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 9th 2007

FTC Gives Net Neutrality the Big 'What For?'

Last week the FTC issued a report dismissing claims that the government must help preserve the fairness of online networks in the U.S., according to Ars Technica. "This report recommends that policy makers proceed with caution in the evolving, dynamic industry of  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 2nd 2007

Most Want Congress to Legislate Corporate Social Responsibility

The vast majority of Americans say it is either very or extremely important for Congress to ensure that companies address social issues, according to a Fleishman-Hillard Inc. (FH) and the National Consumers League (NCL) survey, writes MarketingCharts (  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 18th 2007

YouTube Pulls Video of McCain Singing 'Bomb Iran'

YouTube said Friday it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu song about bombing Iran, reports CNET. During a campaign stop in South Carolina last week, the Arizona senator sang the tune of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann," but wit  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2007

FTC Commissioner: Let's Jail Spyware Distributors

At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday, Federal Trade Commissioner William Kovacic said steep fines are OK, but one of the best weapons against spyware purveyors - whom he termed "vicious organized criminals" - would be locking them up, reports CNET. Congress has been trying for years to pass legislation aimed at curbing spyware and adware, but most of that activity so far has occurred in the Hous  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 12th 2007

YouTube Reaches out to Offended Thais

YouTube will try an approach more subtle than outright censorship in limiting content deemed offensive to the king of Thailand, reports Reuters. Instead of blocking the entirety of YouTube, the video sharing site will now work to block access to individual pages containing offensive content. Videos ridiculing the Thai monarch had been posted to the site, leading the Thai government to ban the site its  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2007

Video Blogger Calls Release from Jail a Win

After 226 days of incarceration, video blogger Josh Wolf says his release from jail is a victory for himself and the press, reports CNET. Wolf had been imprisoned since last year, when he refused prosecutors' demands that he hand over the full video of a protest during which a police officer was injured. Wolf claimed a First Amendment principle was at stake, saying he was in fact a journ  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2007

Utah Bill Could Halt Competitive Keyword Buying

The state of Utah has passed a bill that could impact the practice of buying competitive keywords, reports Search Engine Land. Some search engine marketers buy up keywords associated with the copyrighted terms of their competitors. Utah's Trademark Protection Act would make that practice illegal. The bill creates an "electronic registration mark" as a new form of trademark. Registering that mark will cost $250 but once done a competitor may not use that term to trigger advertis  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 4th 2007

IAB to Congress: SPY Act Hinders E-Commerce, Info Flow

The Interactive Advertising Bureau yesterday urged Congress to protect consumers' access to information and entertainment online and be wary of interest-group pressure to pass what IAB termed ill-considered "spyware" legislation. The IAB said the legislation would hinder internet commerce and the free exchange of information. It was among several organizations testifying at the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Con  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 16th 2007