Tag: OPT-IN

Not one to let the hyperconservative Australian government walk away with the censorship crown, the UK government plans to make the surfing of Internet porn opt-in. Next month, Communications Minister Ed Vaizey will meet with major UK ISPs to discuss a blanket block of porn. Rather than porn being available to all, UK surfers will have to contact their ISP to be allowed on a 'porn surfing ...

If you thought this Facebook thing was just a passing fad, think again. Even the United States Senate has its eye on Facebook this week. A coalition of Democratic senators, led by New York's Chuck Schumer, wants Facebook to make its new Instant Personalization feature opt-in instead of opt-out. Instant Personalization is the feature that lets Facebook share your user info with a selection of ...

Mozilla Labs has finally finished up work on their Test Pilot program and is now looking for help from Firefox users of all levels. For those of you that don't know, the program is designed to help Mozilla test ideas to continue developing Firefox. The program was originally announced in January and little was known about it at the time. Mozilla Labs is now ready to get started and today revealed ...