- The Guy Who Built The World Wide Web Is Building A 'New Internet', Where You Control Your Data https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html 78 comments technology
- Graph showing disruption of Egyptian Internet traffic yesterday based on data from 80 carriers around the world http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5053/5395159043_c4029c5a39_b.jpg 4 comments technology
- “The commercial issue is whether people around the world are going to trust American Internet companies with their data,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/us/politics/bipartisan-backlash-grows-against-domestic-surveillance.html?hp&_r=0 4 comments technology
- The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data - Regulating the internet giants https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/05/06/the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-is-no-longer-oil-but-data 16 comments privacy
- What is the bandwidth of the underwater cables that supply internet to the whole world? And what about the cable makes it so good at transmitting all that data? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/73k7yh/what_is_the_bandwidth_of_the_underwater_cables/ 3 comments askscience
- Japan Breaks World's Internet Speed Record By Clocking Data Transmission Rate 319 Tb/s https://swarajyamag.com/technology/japan-breaks-worlds-internet-speed-record-by-clocking-data-transmission-rate-319-terabits-per-second 3 comments technews
- NSA releases documents on data collection programs, says its systems monitor 1.6% of the world's Internet traffic http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/politics/nsa-documents-scope/index.html 17 comments sysadmin
- NSA releases documents on data collection programs, says its systems monitor 1.6% of the world's Internet traffic http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/politics/nsa-documents-scope/index.html 3 comments technology
- New cable to boost internet access in Africa: With four times more data, West Africa Cable System, or WACS, boosts bandwidth for the world's least-connected region. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/201141844545225913.html 11 comments technology
- Sir Tim Berners Lee is building a ‘new internet’ where you control your own data - The founder of the world wide web is creating a new way to store your data online https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/sir-tim-berners-lee-is-building-a-new-internet-where-you-control-your-own-data/ 72 comments technology
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, accuses Western govts of hypocrisy over their use of data surveillance techniques for "seriously spying on the internet" http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/26/berners-lee-surveillance 4 comments worldnews
- Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90% of the world’s internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other sensitive information https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-team-cymru-browsing-email-data 154 comments futurology
- The first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a Geneva convention style law for the internet to safeguard data and combat the threat of massive clandestine digital surveillance. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/24/we-need-geneva-convention-for-the-internet-says-new-un-privacy-chief 634 comments worldnews
- Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second. A new photonic chip design has achieved a world record data transmission speed of 1.84 petabits per second, almost twice the global internet traffic per second. https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/optical-chip-fastest-data-transmission-record-entire-internet-traffic/ 115 comments worldnews
- Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second. A new photonic chip design has achieved a world record data transmission speed of 1.84 petabits per second, almost twice the global internet traffic per second. https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/optical-chip-fastest-data-transmission-record-entire-internet-traffic/ 1762 comments science
- We need to make it clear to the FCC that we want uncapped Internet access, for innovation in an increasingly data dependent world and user protection. https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-FCC-Has-Received-13000-Complaints-About-Comcast-Data-Caps-135895 2425 comments technology
- Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. https://www.dw.com/en/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-unveils-plan-to-save-the-internet/a-51395985 1553 comments worldnews
- "When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html?pagewanted=all 7 comments law
- "When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html?pagewanted=all 28 comments worldnews
- Researchers from RMIT, Monash and Swinburne universities have achieved the world’s fastest internet data speed – enough to download 1000 HD movies in a split second - using a single optical chip. They recorded a data speed of 44.2 Terabits per second (Tbps) from a single light source. https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2020/may/fastest-internet-speed 4 comments science
- The coming world of quantum technology will require an internet to transfer data within the quantum domain, and society is well on its way to achieving such a network because researchers have successfully entangled quantum memories at a record distance and for the longest duration to date. https://academictimes.com/record-breaking-entanglement-project-brings-us-closer-to-a-quantum-internet/ 6 comments science
- Google wins landmark case limiting 'right to be forgotten' to Europe - while google must remove links to sensitive personal data from its internet search results in Europe when required, it does not have to scrap them from searches elsewhere in the world https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-alphabet-privacy/google-wins-landmark-case-limiting-right-to-be-forgotten-to-europe-iduskbn1w90r5 27 comments europe
- The growth of internet access around the world has slowed dramatically, according to new data, suggesting the digital revolution will remain a distant dream for billions of the poorest and most isolated people on the planet. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/18/exclusive-dramatic-slowdown-in-global-growth-of-the-internet 4 comments worldnews
- Zuckerberg's Internet.org project bribes corrupt, non-neutral carriers in poor countries to exempt Facebook and other services of its choosing from their data-caps, giving the world's poorest an Internet that's been radically pruned to a sliver of what the rest of the world gets for free : worldnews http://www.np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/334nqr/zuckerbergs_internetorg_project_bribes_corrupt/ 14 comments india
- Zuckerberg's Internet.org project bribes corrupt, non-neutral carriers in poor countries to exempt Facebook and other services of its choosing from their data-caps, giving the world's poorest an Internet that's been radically pruned to a sliver of what the rest of the world gets for free http://boingboing.net/2015/04/19/internet-org-delivering-poor.html 2722 comments worldnews
- How the U.S. Government Hacks The World: "According to one of the former officials, the amount of data the [NSA] unit harvests from overseas computer networks, or as it travels across the Internet, has grown to an astonishing 2 petabytes an hour" http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-23/how-the-u-dot-s-dot-government-hacks-the-world 43 comments technology
- A day in the life of the internet hacked and mapped: A single hacker managed to get into millions of computers around the world - which was easy because their routers were all set to the default password of 'root'. But what he did with the data was simple and unmalicious: map it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/mar/27/day-life-internet-mapped-hack 29 comments worldnews
- BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed, Data published by the Google-backed Measurement Lab gives a unique insight into the BitTorrent throttling practices of ISPs all over the world. https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-throttling-internet-providers-exposed-111020/ 21 comments technology
