The Internet
Internet produces conflict between commerce and censorship
By Mike Ingram, August 16, 1999
A 96-page report was issued in June by Human Rights Watch (HRW) entitled The Internet in the Mideast and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship. The HRW report stated:
White House plan for FBI Internet spying
By Martin McLaughlin, August 10, 1999
A vast new computer monitoring system, controlled by the FBI, would be established under a plan being discussed with the Clinton administration, it was reported last week. According to a draft documen...
New techniques to boost the Internet's capacities
By Luciano Fernandez, July 16, 1999
The rapidly increasing demands being placed on international communications networks are fueling some remarkable technical developments in the field of fibre optics.
Censorship in the Information Age
How the British government failed to suppress list of MI6 agents
By Mike Ingram, May 18, 1999
The speed with which a list of purported MI6 agents spread across the Internet last week confirmed the worst fears of the powers-that-be regarding the development of the Internet as a medium of mass c...
UK Internet libel case could set dangerous precedent
By Mike Ingram, April 16, 1999
Demon Internet, one of the oldest UK Internet Service Providers (ISP), is currently fighting a legal battle against a libel case brought by scientist Laurence Godfrey. Its origins lie in a previous ac...
Privacy rights threatened by Intel's new computer chip
By James Brookfield, March 5, 1999
Electronic privacy advocates have filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and launched a boycott campaign against Intel over the company's introduction of a new computer chip that...
Hackers shut down East Timor Internet addresses
By Mike Ingram, March 3, 1999
A concerted attack involving simultaneous hacking from five countries caused an Irish Internet Service Provider (ISP) to switch off its systems last month. Connect-Ireland, the company affected, belie...
