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In 2008, the foreign secretary of Britain, David Miliband, fought with all his main and might for creating a marine reserve around Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and currently a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. OK, maybe he didn't have to fight all that hard, seeing how n... |
22 May 2012
04:01 GMT |
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The recent protests that have taken place worldwide and the more or less correct claims about its effects have made the European Commission cautious about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). As a result, the Commission decided to let the European Court of Justice examine the treaty to determine if it viol... |
22 February 2012
10:57 GMT |
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The Australian government is the latest to be threatened by the infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous, the group demanding that Australian authorities adopt a bill of rights to protect their citizens.
A video release explains the main reasons why such a bill is necessary, even quoting what Amnesty International h... |
30 December 2011
04:21 GMT |
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As if the ongoing backlash Kim Kardashian is getting for her allegedly fake marriage to Kris Humphries wasn't enough, the family is again at the center of a media storm. All the products branded with the Kardashian name are made in foreign sweatshops, it has emerged. Ahead of the weekend, Radar Online has releas... |
21 December 2011
12:03 GMT |
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Douwe Korff and Ian Brown, members of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, officially stated their opinion regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) as it is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Recently, eig... |
7 October 2011
02:57 GMT |
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After a UK human rights website was infected with a Flash zero-day exploit, security researchers from Symantec discovered two more similar sites compromised in Philippines and Hong Kong.The drive-by download attack on the UK human rights site was discovered by web security vendor Armorize back on April 13th.The compr... |
17 May 2011
09:44 GMT |
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A drive-by download attack launched from the compromised UK website of an international human rights organization exploited the latest Flash Player zero-day vulnerability to infect visitors.According to security researchers from Armorize, the attack uses a technique dubbed drive-by caching to deliver the malware and ... |
18 April 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Big businesses using every means they can to ensure their revenue and profitability haven’t been news for at least several decades and probably a lot more. There’s always been a group, or more, trying to bend the laws, or make new ones, to get what they want. The most recent example is the big media compa... |
16 April 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Wikileaks has been the center of more than enough controversy, understandable given the nature of the site. Still, despite numerous attempts from those less than happy with the service, it is as popular as ever and is now hatching up a new plan to ensure that the documents and sensitive data that do make their way on... |
12 October 2009
10:14 GMT |
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In October 2008, Yahoo! founded and launched the GNI (Global Network Initiative) program, with the main goal to maintain the Internet as a global platform for information, personal expression, innovation and economic development. GNI represents the international initiative and effort of a group of information and com... |
7 May 2009
10:10 GMT |
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On the 60th anniversary celebration of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, Microsoft, through the voice of Pamela Passman, corporate vice president of Global Corporate Affairs, reiterated its commitment to the guiding principles behind the cause of human rights. According to Passman, the Redmond company has ... |
11 December 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Two British citizens that sued the UK government for refusing to destroy their DNA and fingerprints records, after being acquitted of the criminal charges brought against them, won as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that this represented a direct violation of their right to private and family life. I... |
8 December 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Big Internet names, such as Facebook, Google, MTV, and Howcast, have already announced their intentions of joining the initiative set forth by the US State Department, of fighting against terrorism, political oppression, and for civil rights. Next week, New York City will host a conference on the matter, with represe... |
25 November 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Answering questions regarding the point when life starts can be a tricky business, as evidenced by an international poll, aimed at getting people's opinions on the matter. Three out of twelve options came ahead, with the others lagging significantly behind. Large percentages of the population believe t... |
29 October 2008
10:25 GMT |
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With legal drugs consumption on the rise on a worldwide scale, governments are beginning to question the safety of these substances. While some have decided to ban them altogether, others still allow the consumption of low-risk hallucinogens, while a few have ordered extensive research into the matter before reaching... |
3 October 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Three years ago, Shi Tao, a journalist of Contemporary Business News in China was arrested by the Chinese police after the Sunnyvale giant Yahoo provided private information about him including IP address or email accounts. Today, Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said for Reuters that he p... |
17 October 2007
06:04 GMT |
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The World Organization for Human Rights and Yahoo are now involved into a very interesting dispute because the Sunnyvale company is accused of infringing the human rights in China. According to the complaints, Yahoo is accused by two Chinese journalists of disclosing private information about the users, information t... |
28 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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