12 January 2010

Stories from 12 January 2010

First Amendment and cyber bullying

  12 January 2010

In schools across America, cyber bullying is a growing problem. The case of a Missouri teenager who committed suicide after being bullied online has brought the problem into national debate. Lori Drew, a mother, along with her daughter and an employee created a hoax MySpace profile and harassed Megan Meier....

Poland: Discussions of TOR and Internet Filtering

  12 January 2010

The end of 2009 in Poland was marked with the beginning of a public discussion of on-line privacy, the government's potential attempts to restrict access to websites and a growing awareness of TOR software supporting on-line anonymity. On Nov. 6, Piotr Waglawski [PL], aka VaGla (recipient of the Internet Citizen of...