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Plan to monitor all internet use Apr 27, 2009 Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics. The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for secu... Computer viruses hit one million Apr 17, 2009 The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark. The new high for malicious programs was revealed by security firm Symantec in the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report. The vast maj... Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2' Apr 17, 2009 A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every... Court jails Pirate Bay founders Apr 17, 2009 A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright... Win for UK story-telling website Mar 17, 2009  A small British company has been named Best in Show at the South by Southwest Web Awards, in Austin, Texas. Six to Start won the top prize for We Tell Stories, an interactive approach to retelling literary classics and redefining modern online... Google users hit by mail blackout Feb 24, 2009 Business and consumer users of Google's popular e-mail service were hit by a blackout on Tuesday. The service went offline at 0930 GMT and began to return for many users after four hours, one of the longest downtimes ever suffered by Google. More t... Facebook 'withdraws' data changes Feb 18, 2009   The founder of Facebook says the social network will return to its previous terms of service regarding user data. In a blog post Mark Zuckerberg said the move was temporary "while we resolve the issues that people have raised". Us... Pirate Bay joy at charge change Feb 17, 2009 Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped. Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making ava... Personal data privacy 'at risk' Feb 13, 2009 Millions of people are leaving themselves open to identity theft when using social networking websites, according to the consumer group Which? Members of sites such as Facebook can join large networks which reveal personal information to thousands ... Privacy groups slam new rules Feb 13, 2009       Privacy groups say widely-anticipated recommendations on how websites collect, save and share information about users don't protect the public. The Federal Trade Commission's new policies focus on targeted advertising that tr...