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Everett City Councillor Sal N. DiDomenico claimed victory last night in the Democratic primary for a state Senate seat, defeating five contenders, three of whom hail from Cambridge...
DiDomenico would replace state Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio, who resigned in January after he was sentenced to a one-year jail term for failing a series of breathalyzer tests, a violation of his probation for a hit-and-run accident which injured...
...Germany has tough privacy laws, a response to the state surveillance systems that were put in place first by the Nazis and then by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. Under the German constitution, the state now has a special responsibility to protect the privacy of its citizens. Germans' privacy rights have been strengthened even further by some recent high-profile court rulings. In March, for example, the constitutional court overturned a law that allowed authorities to keep data on phone calls and e-mails for six months to help fight terrorism and crime. The court said the storage...
...China's Web censors' habit of sometimes blocking even commonplace names from display in blog posts and Web searches. Within days, his post had generated more than 20,000 comments, most in support of the writer, a few in opposition and many grumbling about the state of online freedom in China...
Perhaps the greatest threat China's censorship regime now faces is that it can't seem to stop debate over censorship itself. Since Google declared in January that it planned to stop censoring its Web search results in China, the state of online censorship has come under increasing scrutiny. The Chinese government has sought to portray its conflict with the Internet giant as a commercial dispute and a simple matter of law. But to a significant number of Chinese Web users, the extensive Web restrictions increasingly chafe. So they make use of widely available proxies and virtual private networks...