After its prime billing as the day NebuAd, Microsoft and Google would get a severe grilling from the US Senate, this week’s two hour hearing on online privacy proved a rather damp squib.
In stark contrast to the UK where the information Commissioner has told behavioural advertising technology company, Phorm, its network can only operate if
In the same week that BBC Radio One and the Guardian put out an appeal to hear from UK web users who had received a letter from Virgin Media warning of illegal file downloading on their account (with tips on how to avoid it), the American courts took a far more draconian stance on privacy.
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Google’s Senior Policy Director, Richard Whitt, has revealed that the web giant is working on tools that will reveal to broadband users whether their service is being ‘throttled’ to allow some online services to be prioritised over others.
Speaking at Santa Clara University at a conference on net neutrality - the issue of whether ISPs should