In her new role as Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding will be charged with rewriting the European Union's 15-year-old data-protection laws , reports Comput... More >
ICANN has suggested banning the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a nonexistent domain name, reports NetworkWorld... More >
According to Computerworld , the European Union has dropped its antitrust investigation into Qualcomm 's patent-licensing practices after Ericsson and others withdrew their complaints. In 20... More >
According to Computerworld , House lawmakers have introduced the Secure Federal File Sharing Act , which would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks. If approved, gover... More >
An 18-month investigation by the European Union has revealed that 301 Web sites that sold mobile phone ringtones, wallpapers and other services had " serious breaches of EU consumer law ," according ... More >
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry has introduced the Small Business Health Information Technology Financing Act of 2009 to help family doctors fund conversion to electronic health records, reports Inf... More >
A number of advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Electronic Information for Libraries, are teaming up to launch a new copyright database . According to V3.... More >
Switzerland plans to sue Google for failing to protect its citizens' privacy, reports PCWorld.com. Switzerland claims Google failed to obscure faces, license plates and other sensitive images in i... More >
According to BBC News , countries can now apply for so-called "internationalized domain names," using their native language rather than Latin characters. Egypt says it will be the first t... More >
According to Reuters , the Food and Drug Administration is holding a two-day hearing to find out if the agency needs to specifically regulate how drugs and medical devices it oversees are promoted ... More >
The European Commission has made it official. It issued a formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's bid to acquire Sun Microsystems , saying the buyout would hamper competition in the database ... More >
The European Union says all that's left for formal adoption of its ePrivacy Directive are just formalities, reports V3.co.uk . The directive will pave the way for stronger rules concerning ... More >
The Connecticut Post reports that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is looking into whether Blue Cross and Blue Shield may have violated state law after a laptop containing the perso... More >
The Federal Communications Commission is slated to examine the issue of telephone access fees , reports InformationWeek . Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and BT have alleged that AT&T and Veriz... More >
The European Parliament and Commission has issued a ruling that will require telecommunications companies to inform affected individuals of data breaches , reports SC Magazine . The Commissi... More >
Opera, Mozilla and Google plan to send separate letters to the European Commission suggesting modifications to the ballot screen design put forth by Microsoft, reports Computerworld . Micro... More >
According to Computerworld , the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 got a boost when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill in a vote of 15-5. The bill now heads to the full ... More >
On the heels of New York's antitrust charges against Intel, it is expected that the Federal Trade Commission will join the fray against the chip maker, according to Computerworld . Dan Olds, pri... More >
European lawmakers have cleared the final hurdle to passage of sweeping changes to European telecommunications law. According to The New York Times , lawmakers reached a compromise that states that ... More >
In an effort to quell privacy concerns and give users more control, Google has unveiled a dashboard that gives users a complete view of their personal information tied to the various Google service... More >
Computerworld reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ruled that, by restricting some discount real-estate listings from its own and other publicly available Web sites, Realcomp II , the... More >

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