While there’s plenty of reasons to keep a critical eye focused on Google, Consumer Watchdog’s ad is a dishonest, factually inaccurate joke that shamefully got plenty of uncritical media attention. In the simplest terms possible, Consumer Watchdog is just wrong.

Mumbai, India -- India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications -- not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion -- to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.

Minsk/Moscow - The founder of a prominent Belarus opposition website was found dead Friday at his summer cottage not far from Minsk, the human rights group Charter 97 said.

Behind the principles on both sides of the net neutrality debate lie three sets of fears: competition, censorship, and creativity. In a new O'Reilly Insights column on Forbes, O'Reilly editor Andy Oram discusses and illuminates each fear, each side, and what's at stake. Read more.

BlackBerry's parent, RIM, has reached a truce with the government of India over scrutiny of its encrypted e-mail server.

Alleged wiretapping hearings lead by a politician, the shutdown of an Internet provider and the investigation of a newsprint factory have all occurred in Argentina over the last few days.

India has asked all companies that provide encrypted communications - not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion - to install servers in the country.

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India has asked all companies that provide encrypted communications - not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion - to install servers in the country.

India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.

Ebrahim Nabavi, one of the channel's organizers, said their aim is to break the state-controlled broadcasters' monopoly on the flow of information, fight against censorship in Iran, reflect the views of all Iranian people, and frankly discuss all issues related to Iran. -RFE

India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.

India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.

With so many of their media sources controlled by the state or government-friendly oligarchs, Russians have turned to their bloggers to keep informed and give voice to their grievances and concerns. But many of those in power are now seeking to impose rigid limits on online freedom.

When Malaysia's only openly homosexual pastor announced he was establishing the nation's first gay church, the proposal was met with a torrent of outrage and criticism.

A study shows access to the internet is as widespread in China as it is in developed nations.

CHRISTIAN Democrat MP Reverend Fred Nile has been identified as as one of the biggest viewers of internet pornography in an audit of NSW parliamentary computers.

Ohio State Senate Proposal Would Let Repeat Non-Violent Offenders Hide Their Records

UPDATE 1.06pm: A CHRISTIAN Democrat MP denied viewing the internet porn an audit said was accessed on his office computers.