Hide Article Descriptions May Day, anarchy and visibility Television news has been full of re-run pictures of anarchist violence last May Day, people in masks and discussion of police demonstration control measures for the next few days. DoH.closed.gov.uk Controversy is natural to any form of democratic government, and healthy in that context. But a distinctly unhealthy Bill from the Department of Health is failing to raise controversy in the IT media. And it concerns you personally.
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In policing the Internet. Speakers from the wild west frontier at last week's Infosec conference said that US companies were taking the law into their own hands to combat cyber crime. May 2001 Taxing times on line One of the big issues on the Internet is that of the taxation. The Internet Tax Moratorium act legislation forces traditional retailers to collect taxes whereas there is no such enforcement for on-line retailers. This is now viewed by traditional retailers as handing too strong an advantage to those trading on the Internet.