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• No agreement on Internet content: Lawyer

  The rapid growth of the internet and social media are causing major legal headaches globally, with no clear-cut agreement on how to control content, a law lecturer says.

• US judge won't dismiss WikiLeaks case

  A military judge has refused to dismiss the charges against a US Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in the country's history.

• UN slams WikiLeaks suspect's treatment

  US authorities' treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning is "cruel and degrading", the UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Ernesto Mendez, says.

• WikiLeaks publishes more secret emails

  Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun publishing more than five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, the anti-secrecy group says.

• Activist-backed online collaboration platform due for release in March

  The Global Square, an online global collaboration platform for activists backed by WikiLeaks among others, plans to have a functional prototype by March, its sponsors said.

• WikiLeaks' Assange takes appeal to UK Supreme Court

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched his appeal in the U.K. Supreme Court on Wednesday in his last attempt in Britain to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.

• UK Supreme Court will hear Assange extradition appeal in February

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to take his fight against extradition to Sweden to the U.K.'s Supreme Court.

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  Assange extradition battle continues

  Almost a year and countless court appearances after Julian Assange's arrest, the WikiLeaks chief will continue to fight extradition as another avenue of appeal opens.

• WikiLeaks' Assange can take his extradition appeal to UK Supreme Court

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can take his case to the U.K.'s Supreme Court in his continuing fight against extradition to Sweden.

• WikiLeaks: Security worries impede new submission system

  WikiLeaks has postponed the launch of its new secure submission system due to recent security compromises that seriously affected the credibility of the SSL infrastructure.

• Internet a 'surveillance machine': Assange

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has blasted the mainstream media, Washington, banks and the internet itself as he addressed journalists in Hong Kong via videolink from house arrest in England.

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  Ludlam to back Assange at London appeal

  A Greens senator will travel to London to attend the appeal of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the High Court.

• Don't blame Anonymous for Facebook porn storm, says researcher

  The recent spam attack that planted pornographic images on Facebook was not the work of Anonymous, a security researcher said today.

• WikiLeaks' Assange appeals to take case to UK Supreme Court

  WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange filed an appeal on Tuesday to take his case to the U.K.'s Supreme Court in a bid to block his extradition to Sweden on possible charges of sexual assault and rape.

• US Judge upholds investigators' access to Twitter data

  A District Judge in the U.S. upheld Thursday an earlier order that Twitter must provide certain types of information of account holders to government investigators working on the WikiLeaks case, and declined to unseal records that could provide information on whether the prosecutors had tried to get similar information from other Internet companies.