Craigslist has seen a "spectacular" drop in Erotic Services listings since it began implementing various verification methods in 2008, the company said this week. In five major cities across the US—Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Seattle, and Los Angeles—the drop has ranged between 90 and 95...

Update: The Cook County Sheriff's Department is asking a federal judge to close the Erotic Services section of Craigslist, as well as reimburse the department $100,000 it has cost to pursue Craigslist-related prostitution investigations over the past year, according to the  Chicago Tribune . Origin...

A handful of European organizations—including police, credit card processors, and service providers—have banded together to fight the spread of child pornography online. The group will be called the European Financial Coalition (EFC) and will be funded in part by the European Commission,...

The developers behind many of Facebook's 660,000-plus applications are looking for ways to finally start making money from their hard work. Advertising does not seem to be working out well, and as the Web industry in general begins considering micropayments for salvation, a company called Zuora has ...

Over the past several years, Wikileaks has made a name for itself by poking its electronic fingers in the eyes of the powers that be while shining a light on the confidential documents of said powers. Now, it appears that the spotlight has been turned inward. Due to a bit of careless e-mail etiquett...

For the last several years, German hardware maker ipoque has worked with the ISPs and institutions that have installed its deep packet inspection equipment to track the Internet traffic that flows through it. With the data in hand, the company is in an excellent position to detect trends in usage ha...

The World Intellectual Property Organization has the thankless job of overseeing Internet domain name disputes, but few can have been as surreal as the just-concluded case brought by US media giant Viacom. The company sought control of jackass.com from a "serial cyber-squatter" based in the Virgin I...

Your activities on the Internet are akin to your activities out in public—they're not private and are possibly open for police scrutiny, according to an Ontario Superior Court. The ruling was made by Justice Lynne Leitch on—surprise!—a child pornography case. The judge said that th...

Phorm—even the name conjures up "phear" among opponents of the company's targeted advertising technology. But what does Phorm say about itself? Its stated goal is "to create a new, more responsive, intuitive kind of Internet experience, and that sounds hard to beat. But the EU has some hard qu...

Apple started blocking access to MySpace from its retail stores a couple years ago, when customers accessing the site started taking away time from the other 2,248 customers per day (on average) that walk through the door. Now, the new popular social networking site Facebook has earned the dubious h...