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ANTISEMITISM is alive and thriving thanks to GOOGLE

The Texas attorney general is accusing Google of improperly withholding evidence to stymie an investigation into whether the company has been abusing its dominance of Internet search

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet

Rick Schwartz to Make Poster Boys of the Chavez Brothers for Hijacking Domains

Lawmakers on Thursday said they are united when it comes to keeping the Internet free from centralized control and preventing the United Nations from gaining power over Web content and infrastructure

Once again, censorship of what we can read raises its ugly head. This time the biggest online bank uses its power to keep objectionable materials from being published.

A cybersecurity bill introduced by Republican Senator John McCain could dramatically expand the domestic reach of U.S. intelligence agencies and potentially give them massive troves of emails

Tajikistan blocks Facebook and several news sites. Internet providers received a spoken order from government agents to block the sites,

Watchdogs warn that new plans to protect Internet privacy might not do what they promise, with one critic saying that companies like Google and Facebook could hijack the system.

Discovery comes just days after GOOGLE was found to be sidestepping the user privacy preferences in Apple's Safari.

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser on their iPhones and computers?tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

Google Inc?s planned changes to its privacy policy violate a consent order signed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last year and should be blocked, a Washington advocacy group said in a lawsuit.

European governments, supported by the top justice official in the European Union, are pressing Google to halt coming changes to its privacy policies while they investigate the implications for personal data protection.

Rep. Edward Markey was one of eight U.S. lawmakers who sent a letter to Google expressing concern that a planned consolidation of user information may make it more difficult for consumers to protect their privacy.

Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete that data forever at the consumer?s request and face fines for failing to comply.

Every 6 Months we bring you the results or our research on which Panelists have denied more complaints than any others.

We made it through a tough year, but are there storm clouds ahead? Here is the way that I saw 2011 unfold.

Panel considers "Nominative Fair Use" to be valid defense to UDRP claim

Every 6 Months we bring you the results or our research on which Panelists have denied more complaints than any others.

Two prominent members of the Senate antitrust subcommittee are urging federal regulators to investigate whether Google unfairly promotes its own properties in search results.

Two companies are attempting to force PissedConsumer.com to revise the way it encodes reviews in order to make them less prominent in search engine results.

A sudden move last week to return a hip-hop site to its owner after it was seized and held by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for a year has renewed criticism of the agency's domain confiscation program called In Our Sites.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other international leaders urged countries and private businesses to fight increasing efforts to restrict access to the Internet by repressive governments and even some democratic ones.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said the group "better [move] slowly and cautiously."

Their draft proposes an alternative to the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

A New York City dentist is being sued by a patient who says he is being fined $100 a day for posting negative reviews of his treatment on two consumer websites, according to the lawsuit filed this week.

Protecting Children from Internet Pornography Act would require ISPs to collect and retain user data for at least a year. However, opponents warn that it could open a Pandora's box of government intrusion.

Both Nancy Pelosi and Darrell Issa have come out against passage.

Sometimes "Fair Use" is not just a complaint site. Everything went against the Respondent, except one thing. Read the article to see what that was.

Google competes against companies such as Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Chairman Eric Schmidt said in a written response to lawmakers? questions.

Governments must not clamp down on Internet and mobile phone networks at times of social unrest, the British government said Tuesday ? weeks after suggesting police should do just that during riots.

NEW LEGISLATION BEFORE CONGRESS hinders FREEDOM of SPEECH and INNOVATION

The future of an open, secure and reliable cyberspace depends upon Nations recognizing and safeguarding that which should endure, while confronting those who would destabilize or undermine our increasingly networked world.

First in a multi-part Series: On the Future of the World Wide Web and the Curtailment of Individual Liberty by Governments around the world.

Though wi-fi has never been free at upscale hotels, especially in the fancy rooms and suites, it may become harder to find free wi-fi at EconoLodge and Days Inn.

If bids on domains at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AUCTION do not make the Reserve, Sellers can "opt in" for a periodic payoff.

The Council of Europe plans to establish an Internet user charter to guarantee the rights of consumers in an era of increasing government attempts to seize control of the Web,

POWER.COM will find eager end-user bidders at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AUCTION at the Fort Lauderdale Ritz Carlton Resort on October 18th.

Three Internet companies?Nextag Inc., Yelp Inc. and Expedia Inc.?are gearing up to attack Google Inc. on Capitol Hill, claiming the company is taking new profits for itself by unfairly punishing them on its search engine.

The app let users consult a database of celebrities and public figures to determine if they are Jewish or not.

Probe is whether eBay employees took confidential information from classified ad website Craigslist as eBay sought to build a rival service

Yahoo's Board of Directors fired the company's CEO, Carol Bartz, late on Tuesday, sparking speculation that the company could soon be bought.

Even though Domainer was found to have acted in Bad Faith in registering and using Domain Names, AND he failed to respond to UDRP, he still won!

A proposed class action was filed against Groupon earlier this year by a tour operator in San Francisco, accusing Groupon of bait and switch advertising.

The importance of the timing of the REGISTRATION of the domain name is more important than the "bad Faith" use of the domain.

The contract doesn't mention Facebook and was found on Ceglia's computer, embedded in electronic data from 2004, a year after Ceglia claims he and Zuckerberg signed the contract