Neowin News Feed for: Freedom

UK's Open Rights Group is looking for recruits for its Advisory Council

Paul Hill — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 01:26:01 +0000

The online privacy and freedom advocacy Open Rights Group has announced that it is seeking to recruit people for its Advisory Council. Read on to see what's required and how to apply. Read more...

China implements real identity procedure to comment online

Paul Hill — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:36:01 +0000

The Cyberspace Administration of China has issued new rules which mandate that Chinese users must use their real names in order to post online. The move is being made ready for the National Congress. Read more...

Missouri high school requiring students to hand over biometric data

Paul Hill — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:32:01 +0000

Excelsior Springs High School in Missouri is the latest educational institution to require fingerprints from students. It hopes to track the students as it tries to implement a new learning regime. Read more...

Richard Stallman believes you shouldn't use Uber

Steven Johns — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:32:01 +0000

Citing various issues from privacy concerns to customer tracking, Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has provided a list of reasons why everyone should avoid Uber. Read more...

AT&T ruins Apple SIM by locking it to their carrier

Steven Johns — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:06:01 +0000

If you use Apple SIM and select AT&T as your carrier, you can no longer change the carrier to something else, effectively ruining the Apple SIM. It is a broad yet unsurprising move from AT&T. Read more...

A slip of the tongue gives away CETA's influences from ACTA

Paul Ferson — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:40:19 +0000

ACTA and the whole copyright concern around it, was thought to have been laid to rest. It hasn't been: A European Commission negotiator managed to let slip CETA copies from ACTA. Read more...

Iceland fears arrest of MP over WikiLeaks

Paul Ferson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:23:48 +0000

Due to their part in leaking video footage of American soldiers killing civilians in Baghdad, a prominent Icelandic MP has been advised to avoid going to the USA by her own government. Read more...

Former MPAA vice president turns against SOPA

Paul Ferson — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:38:26 +0000

A former vice-president at the Motion Picture Association of America has turned against the group and the Stop Online Piracy Act they were so keen to push through to the greater internet masses. Read more...

Viacom's YouTube suit threatens freedom

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:08:50 +0000

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner... Read more...

President Bush Signs Internet Tax Freedom Act

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:14:13 +0000

As expected, President Bush has extended the moratorium on state and local government Internet access taxes by signing H.R. 3678, the "Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendment Acts of 2007," into law this week. Congress voted... Read more...

Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich demo

Marcel Klum — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:09:15 +0000

A playable demo for Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich has been released, allowing you the chance to try out this imminent superheroic 3D action role-playing sequel by Irrational Games. This demo contains an intro... Read more...

VU Games getting Irrational with Freedom Force sequel

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:36:40 +0000

Game giant will distribute the PC RPG Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich, which is now set for an early 2005 release. Originally, Irrational Games was planning to self-publish Freedom Force... Read more...

O'Reilly: Open Software No Guarantee for Freedom

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:56:02 +0000

In the new world into which the open-source community is moving, open and free software does not guarantee freedom, especially when applications depend on the network effects and data lock-in more than on software secrecy,... Read more...

F/A-18 Operation Iraqi Freedom demo

Marcel Klum — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:18:21 +0000

Graphic Simulations has released a playable demo of F/A-18 Operation Iraqi Freedom, allowing you to try out their modern combat flight simulation that came out this Summer. The demo offers one playable mission along with... Read more...

GIF Freedom Day!!!

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:17:27 +0000

Today, 20 June 2003 is GIF Freedom Day, the day on which US Patent 4,558,302 expires from Unisys. This patent describes the LZW compression algorithm used in .gif files, now allowing unlimited downloads (free-use) of... Read more...

Bit by bit, digital freedom disappears

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:51:22 +0000

Another stage in Microsoft's five-year plan to control our PCs and the Internet will kick off early next year with the launch of Advanced Micro Devices' latest chip, Opteron, aimed at business uses. ... Read more...

Freedom Network source code now available

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:13:55 +0000

Code Con Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing of ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldman. The announcement was made on Goldman's... Read more...