Internet – Page 3 – THE OVAL CIRCLE

Russia fines internet giants like Facebook, Google & TikTok a combined $2.6 MILLION for failing to delete banned content

Posted on November 3, 2021November 3, 2021By Editor

So far this year, Russia has fined seven internet giants a combined total of $2.6 million for failure to remove prohibited information, including content that promoted the usage of drugs, the country’s media watchdog has revealed. … Read More >Russia fines internet giants like Facebook, Google & TikTok a combined $2.6 MILLION for failing to delete banned content

World

How does Google track me even when I’m not using it?

Posted on October 20, 2021October 20, 2021By Editor

Google can (and does) track your activity across many non-Google websites and apps. That may be surprising, even if you already know that when you use Google products like Google Search, Chrome, and YouTube, they collect a shocking amount of personal information about you. … Read More >How does Google track me even when I’m not using it?

CHEW DUNNIT Rats chew through internet cables leaving almost 2,000 Brits without WiFi leaving users fuming

Posted on October 20, 2021October 20, 2021By Editor

CUSTOMERS were left fuming after rats chewed through internet cables leaving almost 2,000 residents without WiFi … Read More >CHEW DUNNIT Rats chew through internet cables leaving almost 2,000 Brits without WiFi leaving users fuming

Shows

Crosstalk: Information dystopia

Posted on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021By Editor

Can continued internet censorship and freedom of speech co-exist? This all-important question is being tested. How should misinformation be defined? Who should be allowed to make this determination? Today it’s about vaccines. Will it stop there? … Read More >Crosstalk: Information dystopia

Russia

Catastrophic Facebook crash proves time for Russian internet sovereignty has come, Moscow announces after 6-hour network outage

Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021By Editor

A massive internet crash that took out Facebook’s services, including Instagram and WhatsApp, shows that countries need to be less reliant on American tech giants and bolster their own domestic infrastructure, Moscow has said. … Read More >Catastrophic Facebook crash proves time for Russian internet sovereignty has come, Moscow announces after 6-hour network outage

Shows

The rise of internet punditry & the US addiction to incarceration

Posted on August 23, 2021August 23, 2021By Editor

Most believe that the internet is either a tool to subjugate or liberate. But it can do both and in different ways, depending on the specific historical conditions in a given country. The internet is like money; you cannot identify its good or evil in general as it already forms part of society and it will depend on the individual conditions. … Read More >The rise of internet punditry & the US addiction to incarceration

Russia

Russia experiments with Internet isolation. What’s going on?

Posted on August 3, 2021August 3, 2021By Editor

Since 2019, cities across Russia have been testing ways to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet (known colloquially as “Runet”) from the wider global network. Most tests go unnoticed by users, and are only announced post-factum. We explain how Russia is preparing for its own “sovereign Internet” and how the new system differs from the “Great Firewall” of China. … Read More >Russia experiments with Internet isolation. What’s going on?

Asia & Pacific

Data leak exposes passwords and login information of Tokyo Olympics ticket-buyers and volunteers – reports

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021By Editor

Just days before the Tokyo Olympics get underway, passwords and user login IDs of ticket-buyers and volunteers at the games have reportedly been stolen and leaked on the internet. … Read More >Data leak exposes passwords and login information of Tokyo Olympics ticket-buyers and volunteers – reports

Russia

As US social media giants censor free speech online, Russia & China lead the charge to break free from American control of the Web

Posted on July 10, 2021July 10, 2021By Editor

When it comes to online censorship, few voices outside the Western mainstream are safe. Not even a US president. Now, this near-total lack of accountability among tech giants is pushing states to develop sovereign internet spaces. … Read More >As US social media giants censor free speech online, Russia & China lead the charge to break free from American control of the Web

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