PCMag Last week my website and the No Agenda podcast listener support page were both blacklisted formalware. In some instances I am still waiting for the blacklisting to be lifted. Peachy. It’s funny how the site can be blacklisted in a...

NEWSER Feds are working on a proposal to push big online companies to comply with government wiretapping orders. Under the measure, which hasn’t yet gained White House approval, the likes of Google and Facebook would be fined...

 CNet   … They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles. The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the...

David Kravets/ Wired The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant’s customers. That’s why it is...

WorldTruth.tv  Google isn’t exactly a stranger to allegations that they invade the privacy of their customers, but now the search engine is being asked to explain itself in court over accusations that they snoop through messages sent through its...

For years entertainment industry groups have lobbied search engines to penalize sites that link to a high number of copyrighted files, and last summer Google appeared to succumb to these demands. The search engine announced that it...

As it comes under massive pressure from rightsholders, Google’s day to day copyright-related decisions – and indeed those of rightsholders – are coming under increasing scrutiny, largely thanks to the existence of Google’s Transparency Report and the...

There’s an interesting battle going on between copyright holders and search giant Google. Over the past months the number of removal requests has increased dramatically, up to a point where Google hinted that the massive number of...

MAMADOU NDIAYE grew up in Senegal. His parents were “not poor, but not rich”. He was fascinated by mathematics, which he studied at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and then taught for several years in Côte...

For years sites like VCDQuality have been providing timely news on which movies and TV shows have leaked onto the Internet. For those researching the piracy phenomenon these databases prove particularly useful, but for the countless thousands...