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• Microsoft under fire for censoring China blogs
  "If Microsoft wants to do business in China they have to obey the laws set by the Chinese government," Rosoff said, adding that "they've done the calculations and decided this was worth it."

  Microsoft's censorship was first reported by bloggers and news outlets in Asia after MSN Spaces was launched in China on May 26. So far, five million blogs have been created with the service, Microsoft said.
  Full story - Reuters

• January.8th, 2005: Free Surf^TM(beta) is released.

• Anti-censorship web service censors itself A web-proxy service set up by the US government's International Broadcasting Bureau to enable websurfers in Iran to evade censorship is itself massively censoring what they can see. That is the conclusion of an independent new report released from the OpenNet Initiative, an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Toronto, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. "This simply looks at the domain name", says Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School, a coauthor of the report, and filters out any that contain words on a banned list.
  Full story - NewScientist

• COMMENTARY--If your business has not figured out how to control instant messaging (IM), you are in for a rude awakening. Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus. What is it, how does it work, and what can you do to stop it?
  Full story - ZDNet

• Homeland Security creates privacy advisory committee "The Homeland Security Department is establishing a new committee that will provide advice and guidance on key privacy issues, a senior official said Monday. The committee is not being created in response to any particular incident, but will tackle controversial subjects such as personal information sharing between the government and private companies, said DHS Chief Privacy Officer Nuala O'Connor Kelly."
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• August.8th, 2003: Free Surf^TM(alpha)is released.