Governments and companies pushing for greater monitoring of Internet activity pose a major threat to freedom and democracy, according to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Questions: 1) Net neutrality. 2) Government data. ("t's better if dat
May 2008. The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans’ technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world. Com
Si le filtrage du moteur Google.cn était un arrangement d’ordre pratique avec un pouvoir qui entend lutter contre le free flow of information, Google a fini par reconnaître que les exigences du gouvernement chinois entraient de manière fondamentale en con
On November 15, at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), OpenNet Initiative (ONI) partners were set to hold a reception for the as-yet-unreleased volume Access Controlled, in a room which ONI had been given permission to use for
Today (24 March 2010) two computer security researchers, Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm, released a draft of a forthcoming research paper in which they present evidence that certificate authorities (CAs) may be cooperating with government agencies to
"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of
By Philip Giraldi July 19, 2010 "If one goes into an internet café it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification." "As this article was being written, a story broke reporting that
"These events clearly demonstrate that Etisalat and the UAE regulatory environment within which it operates are institutionally hostile to the existence and use of secure cryptosystems. It is therefore of great concern to us that Etisalat is in possession
EFF, working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit on December 1, 2009 against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their p
As an example of the government’s substantial information collection capability, several documents [PDF] in the CIA’s disclosure discuss the CIA’s so-called Open Source Center, established in 2005, which has been collecting information from publicly acces
"– FRA avlyssnar allt. Precis allt. Med FRA-lagen försöker de rättfärdiga vad de gjort hela tiden. Han gick också direkt in på piratpolitik (vilket även är nyckelpolitik för flera nyckelspelare i både röda och blå laget — men som tyvärr inte har sina lagk
afp/svd aug 2010: Den thailändska regeringen har tagit bort tiotusentals dokument från internet under de senaste åren – främst på grund av förolämpningar mot kungahuset. Ett brott som i Thailand kan resultera i 15 års fängelse. En speciell it-brottsenhet
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
Indymedia case , autumn 2009: "officials in the Bush and Obama Justice Departments tried to get the IP addresses of every visitor to Indymedia.us, a left-wing, anticapitalist news site. When the site’s administrators wanted to share the story with the Ele
Seth Schoen , 27 Sept 2010: "The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including all encryption software. The Times said the Obama administration is drafting
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
December 1, 2004. "Mr. Tenet, who retired in July as director of the CIA after seven years, warned that ...""I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accoun