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Path reaches $800,000 settlement with FTC over iOS privacy issue

Social network Path has reached an agreement with the FTC to settle charges that it violated users' privacy by improperly accessing contact data from its iOS users. During the investigation into the improper access...

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Friday, February 1st, 2013 Net News No Comments

Washington state online sex ad law stopped in its tracks

On Friday, a federal judge in Washington State imposed a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of a new law that aimed to impose stronger ID requirements for online sex ads, as a way...

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Saturday, July 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments

AT&T, Feds neglect low-price mandate designed to help schools

An old one-room schoolhouse in Sussex County, New Jersey Nicholas At the dawn of the Internet era, Congress set out to avert a digital divide between rich and poor students. In a landmark...

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Sunday, May 20th, 2012 Net News No Comments

How to Create Secure Passwords

Your guide to creating and using secure passwords online Every Internet user has at least one, but very few know how to use them properly. Passwords carry great power and responsibility - whether...

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Thursday, February 16th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Pedos beware!

No one is safe from Anonymous hacktivists, up to and including paedophiles. “Operation DarkNet was a month-long child pornography sting which culminated in late October over a 24 hour period”, says the Examiner...

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Friday, November 4th, 2011 Net News 1 Comment

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