Geoff White
What are the penalties if web companies fail to monitor their content?
There’s increasing evidence that web companies are now expected to vet their content before publication.
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Geoff White
Google’s censorship move ‘no great leap forward’
Any action to combat the spread of child sexual abuse images online is welcome, but this looks like a tweak to existing measures rather than a radical overhaul.
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Geoff White
A lesson from the Silk Road – nothing dies online
Looking at the path the FBI investigators took to snare the suspected cyber criminal behind the Silk Road drugs marketing website raises questions about our own privacy online.
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Geoff White
Getting to the top of Google – it’s a matter of survival
For some businesses it can be the difference between survival and annihilation. Geoff White looks at the best ways to get to the top of Google searches and at the “dark arts” being used for that purpose.
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Geoff White
Watchdog gets new powers to tackle child sex abuse images
After a meeting with Culture Secretary Maria Miller, technology companies agree to give the watchdog for child sex images online the power to seek out content, rather than just following up leads. But is it enough?
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Geoff White
How to curb the spread of indecent images online
In the wake of two horrific cases of child murder, pressure grows on internet service providers such as Google to do more to crack down on indecent images online. What can be done?
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Geoff White
Calls for greater surveillance after Woolwich
Could a revised communications data bill, also known as the “snoopers’ charter”, have prevented the death of Lee Rigby in a brutal attack in Woolwich?
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Jackie Long
Children and porn: a generation warped by sadistic imagery?
With one youth worker telling Channel 4 News that boys as young as 11 ask him if it is OK to strangle a girl while having sex, is it time to tackle the issue of children and pornography head-on?
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Jon Snow
Channel 4 News: 30 years on
Jon Snow looks back on 30 years of news, trouble and love that have shaped Channel 4 News since it first launched in 1982.
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FactCheck: Is Wikipedia a reliable source?
As Wikipedia stages a blackout and people claim they will be “helpless” without it, FactCheck looks at how heavily people rely on Wikipedia? And how reliable a source it is.
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Jon Snow
Google UK: white walls, free food, nice people
I have had the delightful experience of visiting the piston-less, wire-less, valve-less, transistor-less headquarters of Google UK. Yes, I’ve been right inside www.google.co.uk. And it is a quite extraordinary experience, verging on cultish. But very benign.
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Jon Snow
Newsgathering just gets Twitter and Twitter
A breakthrough for Channel 4 News yesterday: our first ever interview sourced from Twitter.