internet
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Facebook Won’t Tell You If Your Data Was Leaked Because There’s Nothing You Can Do About It
Facebook didn’t notify any of the more than 530 million users whose details were part of the recent data leak — and does not have any current plans to do so, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday. Following a Business Insider report last week, Facebook confirmed that “malicious actors” scraped more than 530 million…
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Australia Helped The UN Write Some Rules For How Countries Must Behave Online
A years-in-the-making UN document that establishes rules for how countries should interact online has been adopted, with Australia playing a role in seeing it come to fruition. On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly took a break from trying to warn everyone about climate change to adopt a report from the Open-ended Working Group on…
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A New Internet Law Has People Worried And The Australian Government Isn’t Listening [Updated]
In case you were worried the passing of the news media bargaining code would mean that politicians would stop paying attention to the internet, fear not! The Australian Government is already trying to pass new laws about the internet — despite unanswered concerns about the impact. Last February 24, Communications Minister Paul Fletcher introduced the…
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Myanmar’s Internet Goes Down Just As The Nation’s Military Attempts A Coup
By all accounts, there is a coup happening in Myanmar. And as part of the reported efforts to seize power, communications services in Myanmar including the internet have been restricted or cut off all together. Myanmar’s new parliament was supposed to meet today after its election in November last year. But instead, an announcement made…