Piffey

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Tag: governments

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and Your Digital Future

There is a lot of controversy surrounding the recent ACTA proposals now that the 2006 document is circulating and gaining momentum. If you’ve been following tech news at all then you’ll know ACTA is an attempt to make a global DMCA-plus of sorts that would protect intellectual property rights worldwide — changing many countries existing [...]

Google Hacked By China

Google reported on its blog today that the company has been repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers, possibly working for the government, over a span of what could be up to two years. The Mountain View company is using this as an opportunity to finally turn back to their “don’t be evil” philosophy and tell China [...]