Global panel to review Internet security
A global commission has been created to investigate how to ensure Internet freedom and security at a time of growing concerns over privacy breaches.
Security
Jan 22, 2014
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Page 23 - News tagged with freedom
High-order synthetic dimensions in waveguide photonic lattices
In physics, a very intuitive way of describing the evolution of a system proceeds via the specification of functions of the spatiotemporal coordinates. Yet, there often exist other degrees of freedom in terms of which the ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 6, 2020
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Britain warns over Internet freedom at cyberspace talks
British Foreign Secretary William Hague issued a warning on Tuesday to countries that try to restrict Internet freedom as he opened a global conference designed to set up cyberspace "rules of the road".
Internet
Nov 1, 2011
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Study: Veterans often favor more restrictive gun control legislation than civilians
Opinion remains divided regarding how guns should factor into American society, especially those weapons designed for military warfare.
Social Sciences
Jun 9, 2022
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China: Clinton Internet speech harms ties with US
(AP) -- China rejected Friday a call by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet in the communist country, denouncing her criticism as false and damaging to bilateral ...
Internet
Jan 22, 2010
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Digital rights groups blast Dutch computer plan
Digital rights groups have called on the Dutch justice minister to retract a proposal that would give the country's police the right to break into computers, including foreign citizens' computers, to combat cybercrime.
Internet
Dec 4, 2012
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More than two-thirds of UK social scientists warn their academic freedom is under threat
Academics have said their freedom is under threat with evidence suggesting one of the reasons for this concern is the effect of internationalization including risks associated with the rising influence of authoritarian states ...
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2022
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Swartz' suicide fuels debate over computer crime
(AP)—Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead in his New York apartment Friday, struggled for years against a legal system that he felt had not caught up to the information age. Federal prosecutors had ...
Internet
Jan 14, 2013
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Hackers target Indian minister in free-speech fight
Hackers attacked and defaced the website of India's IT minister on Friday amid a growing campaign against a law governing online comments which has been condemned by free-speech advocates.
Internet
Nov 30, 2012
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Common ground on the common good: Study finds Republicans and Democrats can agree on some moral issues
(Phys.org)—A new University of British Columbia study that asked U.S. conservatives and liberals to rate the most influential historical figures of the 20th Century finds that the two sides of America's "culture wars" share ...
Social Sciences
Nov 5, 2012
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