Companies like Microsoft and Google plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion.

A Canadian human rights group has uncovered a system that tracks politically charged text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture of which eBay’s Skype is a partner.

The defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use Google search data to demonstrate that that sexually explicit material does not violate community standards.

Two departing high-ranking Wall Street Journal employees, including its managing editor, are under nondisparagement clauses.