If an actor doesn’t want to reveal their age, they can now keep it off the internet, too. Under a new California law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday, entertainment database sites such as IMDb would be required to remove the age of an actor if asked. The move was both celebrated by the …
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Distributing “revenge porn” online or through messages could soon be a criminal offence in NSW. The NSW Government has announced plans to introduce legislation that would criminalise “the distribution of intimate or sexually explicit images without consent,” according to NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton. There’s a reason the practice is known as revenge porn. According to Upton, the sharing of these …
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Now playing: Watch this: Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian… 2:02 This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. I was in the kitchen at my parents’ house when my phone vibrated. It was a WhatsApp message from …
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Republicans may be set to revive legislation that would replace the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial rules governing the open Internet. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) needs Democrats to join his efforts to craft legislation to protect Net neutrality without using old utility-like regulation as the foundation. Screenshot by Marguerite Reardon/CNET At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday key Democrats signaled they …
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The senate chambers at the California state capitol building Richard Nieva/CNET SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After a long debate on the Senate floor, California legislators narrowly rejected a bill on Thursday that would have required anti-theft software to come preloaded and automatically enabled on all smartphones sold in the state. The law, spearheaded by California State Sen. Mark Leno and San …
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