Italy Italy's website that tracks lawmaking is down — and no one knows why Established in April 2012 by the technocratic government of Mario Monti, the public portal has been used by successive governments to outline the progress of their policies through the legislative process. 27/06/2018
USA States using internet to threaten democracy on the increase A recent report by Freedom House highlights a growing number of regimes using the internet to disrupt democracy abroad and limit individual freedom at home. 14/11/2017
Ukraine Ukraine blocks Russia's answer to Facebook and Google Russia's Facebook and Google equivalents have been banned in Ukraine - hitting millions of web surfers. 16/05/2017
United Kingdom Wikipedia founder launches site to counter fake news Wikitribune will bring together professional journalists and a community of volunteers and supporters to produce news articles 25/04/2017
USA All change on the White House website as Trump makes his mark The White House website has undergone a radical overhaul since Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, with pages devoted to fighting climate change and defending LGBT rights notable… 23/01/2017
Business Cloud nine as Ctrip buys Skyscanner for $1.75bn Skyscanner sold to Ctrip for $1.75bn 24/11/2016
USA Did Trump crash a Canadian immigration website? Along with the Mexican Peso, political correctness and pantsuit sales, the Canadian immigration website was a casualty of Donald Trump’s election win. 09/11/2016
United Kingdom WikiLeaks to release around a million new documents as US election looms Julian Assange says the WikiLeaks documents concern the US election and three governments, but denies they aim to damage Hillary Clinton. 04/10/2016
Lithuania Crimean Tartar event hit by cyber attack in Lithuania Lithuania’s parliamentary website came under cyber attack on Monday just as a special session of the World Congress of Crimean Tartars was meeting to 11/04/2016
Unreported Europe Call for witnesses: Buying legal highs online In April, Euronews will launch its new Insiders programme. Taking up from our successful Reporter series, the weekly show will uncover the truth 23/03/2016
United Kingdom David Cameron moves to protect children from online porn David Cameron has told pornography websites to install restrictions to block children accessing adult videos or risk being shut down. The UK prime 31/07/2015
Sci-tech LeWeb 2014: hanging out with Withings CEO Cedric Hutchings Cédric’s passion for innovation and understanding of consumers’ needs fuels Withings’ fast growth. Armed with an engineering degree from Ecole 09/12/2014
Netherlands LookLive: watch a series, spot a piece of clothing, buy it LookLive is so simple and attractive an idea that anyone would assume it has always been there. Not so: LookLive are the first and they are going 17/10/2014
USA How Vimeo helps to empower creators Sam Toles has recently been appointed vice-president and head of Content Acquisitions and Business Development. He tells us more about 16/10/2014
Malaysia Can web users succeed where authorities have failed over missing plane? Nearly a week on and authorities are still seemingly no closer to finding Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. Amid the scramble to find the missing 13/03/2014
France French feminists go wild over Kamal's seduction techniques French feminists from the ‘Feminists and Citizens’ group have demanded that a ‘seduction advice’ website be closed. According to their lawyer, the 05/09/2013
United Kingdom Over 300,000 attempts to access porn from UK parliament Hundreds of thousands of attempts to access pornographic websites have been made at the UK’s parliament the House of Commons, new figures 04/09/2013
USA Google says email users have “no legitimate expectation” of privacy Speaking about email services in a court filing Google has said: “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily 15/08/2013
