Yahoo Fought Against The NSA's Demands For Their Data (But They Lost)

Reuters How Yahoo Fought PRISM — and Lost -- Atlantic Wire Yahoo, one of the companies named as part of the NSA's PRISM data collection ...

Major Tech Firms Are Denying That They Gave The NSA And The FBI Access To Their Servers

Documents: U.S. Mining Data From 9 Leading Internet Firms; Companies Deny Knowledge -- Washington Post The National Security Agency and the ...

U.S. Web Companies Hosting Sites Linked To Terror Are Rarely Shut Down

Feds Take Little Action Against U.S. Web Companies Hosting Sites Linked To Terror -- Washington Times/Washington Guardian Just miles from Ne...

The Growing Role Of The Web In Assisting Law Enforcement

Speculation: In this photo, the Redditors claim that a man can be seen dropping a suspicious object near the scene of the second explosion W...

The Coming Crackdown On The Internet

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry described particularly Twitter as a tool used by fighters to stir social unrest [ Al Jazeera ] WNU Edit...

Why Were Three Egyptian Divers Trying To Cut And Sabotage Critical Internet Ocean-Floor Cables That Are Critical For The World Wide Web

The cable targeted, the SEA-ME-WE 4, is 18,800 kilometres long, and is the primary internet 'backbone' between south-east Asia, the ...

Internet Facing An Unprecedented Attack Right Now

Web Slows Under 'Biggest Attack Ever' -- The Telegraph Millions of people around the world have been affected by slow internet speed...

Just How Big Is The Internet?

A world map of the Carna Botnet's measurements of some 460 million IP addresses that responded to ping requests in June and October 2012...

UN Treaty Now Permits Foreign Governments To Read Your Emails

UN Agency Opens International Internet Traffic To Government Scrutiny -- Aol Defense The United Nation's International Telecommunication...

Internet Freedom Is Declining Worldwide

More Countries Restrict Internet To Stifle Critics: Report -- Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government restrictions on the Internet have ri...

The Internet Was Never Invented To Maintain Communications During A Nuclear War

Xerox PARC headquarters. Who Really Invented The Internet? -- Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal Contrary to legend, it wasn't the fede...

The Move To Limit Freedom On The Web Picks Up

A global concern: Protesters from the Anonymous India group in Mumbai of hackers wear Guy Fawkes masks as they protest against laws they say...

Why The U.N. Should Not Takeover The Internet

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns a House committee that Google, iTunes, Facebook, and Netflix could face new international taxes. (Cre...

Will The U.N. Regulate The Internet?

House To Examine Plan For United Nations To Regulate The Internet -- The Hill House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next w...

Iran Preparing To Cut Internet Access To Rest Of World

Iran Planning To Cut Internet Access To Rest Of World -- The Telegraph Iran is drawing up plans to cut off its internet users from the rest ...

Web Freedom May Be A Thing Of The Past

Web Freedom Faces Greatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin -- The Guardian Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to c...

The World's Internet Powerhouse Is Estonia

How Tiny Estonia Stepped Out Of USSR's Shadow To Become An Internet Titan -- The Guardian The European country where Skype was born made...

Did China Just Test A "Kill-Switch" For The Internet?

Image source: Kai Hendry / Flickr.com . China’s Mysterious Internet Outage; Speculation Over A ‘Kill Switch’ -- ZDNeT Summary: Temporary bla...

Iran Preparing To 'Disconnect' From The Internet

Iranian schoolgirls chat online at an internet cafe. ( Photo: Reuters ) Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; 'Clean' National Int...

Al Qaeda's Websites Have Gone 'Dark'

Al-Qaeda’s Online Forums Go Dark For Extended Period -- Washington Post Al-Qaeda’s main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days in...