It looks like Lori Drew - the too-involved-in-her-daughter’s-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself - will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer...

Chinese students were out partying in celebration of the news that China has delayed its mandate that PCs sold in the country must have intalled some spyware named Green Dam Youth Escort, according to Reuters. “We are very happy because we got what we...

Yesterday, I pointed out that China’s Green Dam Youth Escort software purloins a 2006 version of Solid Oak’s CyberSitter net-nanny software and that the developer - Jinhui- was involved in drafting specifications for “parental control software” also in...

On the eve of destruction, China has delayed Green Dam Day. Reuters reports that China will delay an order that all PCs sold in the country come equipped with Green Dam-Youth Escort. The government had set July 1 as the day.

Tech business organizations around the world have signed onto an extraordinary letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, asking for executive clemency from China’s Green Dam-Youth Escort software, The Wall Street Journal reports. The letter says in part: