A coalition of internet companies is urging the government not to impose rules that would allow internet service providers to favour traffic from one provider over another

Online services which scan users' email to generate targeted advertising are being "closely scrutinised" by the Government over internet privacy concerns.

• EU wants Britain to tighten laws on internet privacy • Use of new advertising technology questioned The European commission yesterday called for the UK's privacy laws to be tightened to protect internet surfers as it launched legal proceedings against the government for breaching data protection and so-called ePrivacy rules. In her weekly internet address, EU telecoms commissioner...

Via everyone who is not asleep, dead or ridiculously pig-ignorant, tomorrow sees the implementation of an outrageous new invasion of privacy. A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months. ...

China is seeking international agreement to allow it to meter internet traffic passing through its borders, it has emerged.

Big Brother-style monitoring of private internet, text messages and telephone traffic could be carried out by communication companies on behalf of the UK Government.

Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday) MPs will, for the first time, have the opportunity to fully debate the issue of privacy and the internet - an astonishing thought given that more than 60% of the public use the internet every day. The...

Akamai Technologies has released the second edition of its quarterly "State of the Internet" report which provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.

Go Bazzer O’Bazzer!“Let me also be clear about what we will not do. Our pursuit of cyber-security will not—I repeat, will not include—monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic. We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans. Indeed, I remain firmly committed to net neutrality so we can keep the Internet as it ...

Internet service providers should be free to favour traffic from one content provider over another as long as they inform customers, the communications minister will say on Wednesday