China journalist faces 15-year prison term for Internet postings
Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by...
House committee slams China rights record on eve of Hu visit
A panel from the US House Committee on International Relations sharply criticized China's human rights record on Wednesday, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's Thursday visit to the White House . At a...
Media watchdog again accuses Yahoo of helping Chinese police ID journalist
Internet company Yahoo may be responsible for leading Chinese police to the identity of a pro-democracy activist who was sentenced to four years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday. Jiang Lijun was...
JURIST has been nominated for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2006. Called the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts...
Google has agreed to pay up to $90M to settle a class action lawsuit filed last year in Arkansas state court, alleging that Google and other online search engine companies overcharged for pay-per-click advertising, in...
The US Department of Justice insisted in a court filing Friday that the information the search engine data government is seeking from Google as part of its effort to revive the Child Online Protection Act would...
Google, Inc. formally rejected a subpoena from the US Department of Justice for search data on Friday, arguing that the subpoena violated the privacy of Google customers and...
Several members of the US House of Representatives Wednesday sharply criticized US internet companies for complying with the Chinese government's censorship requests at a Human Rights subcommittee hearing . The hearing was called after Microsoft ,...
Yahoo! Inc. issued a statement Monday supporting freedom of speech in China in anticipation of its Wednesday testimony before the human rights subcommittee of the US House Committee on International Relations. The...
A federal court hearing to decide whether Google will be required to comply with a request from the US Department of Justice for extensive excerpts from its search log has been postponed until March 13....
