Online privacy has become a raising concern for digital citizens within the past few years. As users of the Internet, we are in an uncomfortable situation regarding the protection of our online data. We share, tweet, like and follow at an ever-increasing rate, while at the same time getting more aware of the possible dangers of privacy breach or identity theft. Is it possible to navigate on the...

The popularity of Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) for providing voice communication over IP networks such as the Internet has resulted in VoIP becoming a global telephony service. VoIP applications convert analogue voice signals into a digital format, which is then encapsulated into IP packets for transmission over the Internet. Our research has examined both the security and privacy im...

Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) (http://www.cyber-rights.org), is a non profit organisation established to protect the interests of all honest, law abiding Internet users with the aim of promoting free speech and privacy on the Internet. It was founded in 1997 and has been actively involved with the Internet policy making process of the UK government, the European Union, Council of Europe, ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is assessed in this paper as having a special role in the development of the law of new media, recognising both the importance of its management of the global domain name system and how questions of institutional legitimacy have highlighted the lack of agreement on the role of law in the governance of the global Internet. In order ...

Recently communications and information technology became widely used in various aspects of life. The internet becomes the main network for information support. Using of internet enabled public and private organizations to develop its business and expand its activities. Private organizations applied the principles of e-commerce to improve the quality of services which provided to customers. Whi...

Communication technologies are commonplace in modern society. For many years there were only a handful of communication technologies provided by large companies, namely the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and mobile telephony; these can be referred to as traditional communication technologies. Over the lifetime of traditional communication technologies has been little technological evo...

Twenty years ago, law enforcement organizations lobbied to require data and communication services to engineer their products to guarantee law enforcement access to all data. After lengthy debate and vigorous predictions of enforcement channels “going dark,” these attempts to regulate the emerging Internet were abandoned. In the intervening years, innovation on the Internet flourished, and law ...

The primary responsibility of the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is to protect online consumer privacy by developing an organization’s privacy policy and ensuring compliance with privacy laws and regulations. However, the explosive growth of internet use for business has brought about an escalation of concerns including reduced consumer confidence in internet-related business activities, risk of f...

When compared with access network interception, Lawful Interception of the Internet is both more difficult and much less mature. However, Internet interception is becoming increasingly more important as Law Enforcement Agencies find that access network interception is becoming less effective. Unfortunately, the most common approach to Internet interception has some fundamental weaknesses, which...

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