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Whose Wikipedia Is It, Anyway?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Please don’t get the wrong idea about this column; I have nothing against crowdsourcing. Some of my best friends belong to crowds. I also have nothing against the concept of a “free, Web-based, collaborative multilingual encyclopedia project,” as Wikipedia defines itself. And while journalists, students and others doing research should know by now to consider…

European Privacy Officials Steamed Over Google’s WiFi Sniffing Slip

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Google has disclosed that devices inside cars it sent to gather street-level images for its Street View service captured information sent over unsecured WiFi networks while driving through city neighborhoods. The company has acknowledged that devices in the vehicles capture data in two countries — Germany and Ireland. Germany may take action against Google over…

European Racket Over Street View Privacy Spawns Probes

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

European privacy advocates are scaling up their scrutiny on Google regarding its Street View cars’ collection of data from unencrypted WiFi networks. German prosecutors and the Czech data protection agency have launched separate investigations into the issue; Italy’s privacy regulator is looking into whether Google treated the data correctly; and the European Union’s Justice Commissioner…

China Praises the Internet as It Strangles It

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

China’s State Council Information Office has published a whitepaper outlining its view of the Internet — along with a reaffirmation that it intends to continue to restrict access to it. For the most part, the paper, which also was posted in an English language version, expresses admiration of the Internet. It is an “important booster…

SC Leaves Big Questions Open in Text-Message Privacy Case

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to carve out new rights to digital privacy for public sector workers in its 9-0 decision in City of Ontario v. Quon. The case revolved around the question of whether the Ontario, Calif., police force had the right to read text messages employees sent using the department’s equipment and wireless…

The US’ Mobile Catch-Up Game Plan

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

U.S. broadband providers have gotten away with shoddy speeds and restricted access because Americans consumers are pretty clueless about what they’re actually buying. A whopping 80 percent of broadband users in the United States do not know the speed of their own broadband connection, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) survey found. It’s no surprise, then,…

FCC Raises the Broadband Bar

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Federal Communications Commission has redefined broadband speeds as 4 Mbps (megabits per second) for downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads. Characterizing the move as “overdue,” the FCC pointed out that the previous standard of 200 Kbps (kilobits per second) in both directions was set in 1999. The new speeds were included in the FCC’s…

Telecoms Fret Over Bust-Up of FCC’s Net Neutrality Huddle

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly ended a series of talks with major players in the Internet industry on the question of Net neutrality. This followed allegations that Google and Verizon are privately wheeling a deal that would let the latter give preferential treatment to Web traffic from Google on its network for a fee.…

Critics Charge Craigslist Functions as Bulletin Board for Child Prostitution

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Richard Blumenthal, attorney general of Connecticut, has called for classified advertisement service Craigslist to shut down its adult services section. In addition, Blumenthal stated that he intends to call for his fellow state attorneys general to make similar demands of Craigslist. No particular legal action has been filed, however. “The continued prevalence of prostitution ads…

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