By Roy Choi |
Thursday a coalition of mostly Western nations refused to sign a new United Nations telecoms treaty. The 193-nation meeting in Dubai covered an array of telecommunications topics including Internet censorship, Internet fraud, spam, transparency on mobile phone charges, and internationally emergency phone number for mobile…
By Adriana Lee |
We use Facebook for all sorts of things, both brilliant and inane. And while it may be our favorite news resource, social gathering place or general time waster, it’s also something else, something potentially very dangerous, says the United Nations: It reports that the social network…
By Adriana Lee |
Should the control over the Internet pass to the United Nations? That’s the question that could arise when the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union hosts its World Conference on International Telecommunications this December. While it might be hard to imagine anyone jockeying for control over something as…
