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India’s top court upholds free speech on the Internet

March 24, 2015 admin country, facebook, free-speech, india, internet, largest-growth, phone, photo, smartphone-user, supreme, supreme-court, Technology, verdict-hailed

By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India's top court struck down a law on Tuesday that gave authorities powers to jail people for offensive online posts, a verdict hailed as a victory for free speech in the world's largest growth market for the Internet. Section 66A of the country's Information and Technology (IT) Act was challenged in the Supreme Court by law students, bloggers, writers and rights groups following arrests across the country for statements posted on social media sites

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Online ad revenue at risk in war on ‘click fraud’

March 23, 2015 admin association, bwin-party, country, crook-infects, gambling, gathered-steam, largest, markets-hurts, now-stipulate, sportingbet, study-conducted, the-biggest

Spurred by a warning in December by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) that businesses are losing $6.3 billion a year to so-called “click fraud,” these companies now stipulate in advertising contracts that they will only pay for online ads when given proof that humans clicked on them. “We don't want to be paying for non-human traffic,” said Mark Clowes, global head of advertising at American International Group Inc , the largest commercial insurer in the country. In a typical click fraud scheme, a crook infects many computers with malicious software, and directs the machines – called bots – to visit a webpage, click on an ad or watch a video

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U.S. has raised concerns with China about new cyber rules: official

February 13, 2015 publisher being-called, china, country, kaspersky, legitimate, obama, representative, russia, stolen-as-much, ukraine, world

The Obama administration sees planned new cybersecurity rules in China as a “major barrier” to trade and has raised concerns with Beijing at the highest level, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. Deputy U.S.

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China to go after fraud on online dating sites: Xinhua

February 13, 2015 publisher country, fraud-on-dating, internet, legitimate, obama, public-nuisance, representative, state-news, stolen-as-much, xinhua

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Internet regulator will target fraud on dating websites and other online match-making sites, state news agency Xinhua reported. “Fraud on dating websites has become a public nuisance to millions of users, especially young people, who use such services,” Xinhua cited a statement from the Cyberspace Administration of China as saying, in a report released late on Thursday.

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Obama to encourage companies to share cyber threat data

February 13, 2015 publisher civil-liberties, country, internet, michael-daniel, public-nuisance, sets-the-stage, stolen-as-much, xinhua

By Joseph Menn and Roberta Rampton SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment. The order sets the stage for new private-sector led “information sharing and analysis organizations” (ISAOs) – hubs where companies share cyber threat data with each other and with the Department of Homeland Security. It is one step in a long effort to make companies as well as privacy and consumer advocates more comfortable with proposed legislation that would offer participating companies liability protection, the White House said

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Commuter infected with measles is San Francisco LinkedIn employee

February 12, 2015 publisher civil-liberties, country, disease, employee-based, francisco, internet, linked, measles-while, michael-daniel, northern, rapid-transit

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Northern California commuter who health officials say may have exposed tens of thousands of people to measles while riding San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system while infectious is an employee of LinkedIn Corp, the social networking company said on Thursday.

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Canada security bill provides new powers to combat terror

January 30, 2015 creative conservative, conservatives, country, intelligence, islamist, make-it-easier, make-preventive, market, news-conference, popular-hedge, price-should, prime, prime-minister, stephen, wilmington

By Andrea Hopkins RICHMOND HILL, Ontario (Reuters) – New anti-terror legislation in Canada would make it a crime to call for attacks on the country and give a much larger role to the government's main spy agency. The bill introduced by the Conservative government on Friday would give the spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the ability to disrupt attacks by interfering with travel plans or communications, for example. The bill, whose passage is assured because the Conservatives have a majority in Parliament, would also make it easier for police to make preventive arrests.

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Dating site Topface says paid hacker to not sell stolen data

January 30, 2015 publisher cooperation, country, field, hacker, intelligence, largest-dating, make-preventive, news-conference, popular-hedge, price-should, prime-minister, reward, wilmington

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Topface, one of the world’s largest dating websites, said it has paid a hacker an undisclosed sum to stop trying to sell about 20 million email addresses stolen from the Russian company. Topface Chief Executive Dmitry Filatov said the company located the hacker, who had published ads to sell the data but had not actually sold them. “We have paid him an award for finding a vulnerability and agreed on further cooperation in the field of data security,” Filatov said in an email on Friday, declining to disclose the size of the reward.

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State lawmakers slam attempt at online sales tax law

January 27, 2015 creative collect-sales, congress, country, easing-the-way, house, internet, non-sales-tax, proposed-online, representatives, sales, speaker-john, state-lawmakers, wrote-the-group

U.S. states for years have asked Congress for federal legislation easing the way for them to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, but now that a bill has been drafted, state lawmakers are resisting. The National Conference of State Legislatures on Tuesday released a letter it sent to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Monday that depicted a proposed online sales tax bill as an unconstitutional attack on states’ rights.

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