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David Meyer: The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement could criminalise internet users globally. But it hasn't been ratified yet …

Help Net Security: "OpenDNS unveiled a preview of DNSCrypt, a new technology that improves both the security and privacy of Internet users."

With the rise of identity theft, corporate tracking, and the ability of “Big Brother” to access our private data, it is more important than ever for Internet users to be aware of how past and future data can be erased and controlled more effectively.

Last month the MPAA and RIAA made a deal with all the major Internet providers in the United States to systematically hunt down file-sharers.

The new “Copyright Alerts” system will directly affect millions of Internet users, but thus far the participating parties have refused to disclose which monitoring company will act as anti-piracy detectives.

It’s time for the big reveal.

A browser-based app developed by Georgia Tech researchers is designed to help Internet users make better use of their bandwidth – and to make sure ISPs are holding up their end of the bandwidth bargain.

Following a weekend where much of Egypt had no Internet service at all, we're now seeing data that proves just how important the world wide web is to the society we now live in.

Just decades ago, there was no worldwide inter-connectivity. But the world has become a far smaller place with the advent of the Internet, and the UN's telecommunications...

Wall Street Journal: "Politicians are deploying sophisticated new technologies to track Internet users—sometimes by name—and identify their political leanings."

One of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet,is the business of spying on Internet users. Tracking of consumers has grown both far more pervasive and far more intrusive than is realized by all but a handful of people in the vanguard of the industry.

Profiles of individuals, constantly refreshed, are bought and sold.

Release notes for Firefox v4 (beta) outlines all the features which web developers and ordinary internet users will find helpful.

To know what exactly these features are, read on.

Online life in China is not bleak and boring. Its 384 million Internet users enjoy everything from gaming and celebrity gossip to teenage chatrooms, academic forums, illegal file-sharing and porn sites.