The White House has called a meeting for later this month with the group that manages the Internet’s domain name system to discuss ways to crack down on illegal online pharmacies. The meeting with officials from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will take place Sept. 29 with White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel and other White House and agency officials, a spokeswoman for the White House Office of Management and Budget confirmed.
India added Google and Skype to its electronic security crackdown and began accessing some of the traffic carried on its initial target, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. In the latest salvo of a campaign driven by fear that unmonitored email puts Indian security at risk, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said notices were being sent to Google and Skype asking them to set up servers in India and allow officials access to web data that militants could misuse.
U.S. communications regulators said they are considering whether wireless devices should be subject to different Internet traffic rules than telephone and cable lines, in a potential victory for carriers. At issue is net neutrality, a term that means high-speed Internet providers should not block or slow information, or make websites pay to reach users more quickly.
The CEO of the online classified site Craigslist blasted an interview request from the CNN reporter who accused the site of profiting from the sex trade. Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster posted a public response to CNN reporter Amber Lyon’s request for an interview with the company, noting the request came 90 days after Lyon “ambushed” Craigslist founder Craig Newmark at an event in Washington and accused him of profiting off the exploitation of women and children in the site’s “adult services” section.
Mike Wise, a sports columnist at The Washington Post, published to his Twitter account that the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games. Now Mr. Wise himself is suspended, because the information he published about Mr. Roethlisberger was made up — a test, he said, of how fast a piece of misinformation could spread online.
