Google and others release tool to detect Net filtering, blocking

  Complementing other tools like EFF's Switzerland and AT-Tester  from Lirneasia, Google and others have released beta versions of QoS tools available at M-Lab. News of the development of these tools first came out around mid-2008. As Information Policy notes, Is your Internet provider unreasonably interfering with your network traffic, and perhaps even running afoul …

Unmasking bloggers in India raises some interesting questions

First it was shutting down blog sites after the Mumbai bombings in 2006. This year it was attempting to snoop into communications conducted over BlackBerry's. Now Google has been instructed to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger in a defamation lawsuit filed by an Indian construction company against them. The story on the Wall …