Stories about: CDT

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US lifts Iran, Sudan, Cuba Internet services export ban 09 March, 2010 07:20

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has loosened controls on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, in an effort to spread free-speech freedoms to those countries, the agency said Monday.
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Clinton praised for Internet freedom speech 22 January, 2010 08:22

Camran Ashraf, an Iranian-American digital activist, was encouraged by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's anticensorship speech Thursday.
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Google may pull out of China after cyberattacks 13 January, 2010 11:21

Google has decided to stop censoring its results in China and could end up closing its operations and shutting down its search engine there, the company said Tuesday.The decision follows an attack on Google's servers in December that targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, Google said in a blog post.
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Sprint downplays report it shared GPS data with feds 03 December, 2009 09:07

Sprint Nextel is downplaying a controversial blog report that it provided customer GPS location data to law enforcement authorities more than eight million times between September 2008 and October 2009.
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DOJ: Court should reject Google book search settlement 21 September, 2009 05:47

The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search company's book search program.
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DOJ: Court should reject Google book search settlement 19 September, 2009 14:13

The US Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search company's book search program.
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Privacy missing from Google Books settlement 31 August, 2009 07:45

If Google digitizes the world's books, how will it keep track of what you read?
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Civil rights activists champion Google book deal 30 July, 2009 03:14

A proposed settlement allowing Google to digitize millions of books will have huge benefits for minority populations and their access to valuable information, a group of civil rights leaders and educators said Wednesday.
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Online ad groups release new behavioral ad principles 03 July, 2009 05:35

Online consumers should get more information about what information is being tracked and collected for the purposes of behavioral advertising, and they should have more control over what data is being collected, according to new privacy principles released Thursday by four advertising trade groups.
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CDT: New privacy law getting closer 01 July, 2009 07:58

Comprehensive legislation to protect consumers' privacy is closer to becoming a reality in the U.S. Congress than it's been in several years, officials with the Center for Democracy and Technology said Tuesday.
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Obama's cybersecurity initiative wins praise 01 June, 2009 04:50

U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement Friday of a new cybersecurity push by the U.S. government won widespread praise from the technology industry, with many people saying his attention to the issue is a major step toward better securing the nation's computer networks.