Data retention
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 9, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 09/Sep/2011; tagged in Asia, China, Data retention, Geolocational Filtering, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Russia, South Korea, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: As Europe Responds to Norway Attacks, Calls for Internet Monitoring Emerge
Co-authored by Jane Abell.
Throughout Europe, calls for increased Internet surveillance have emerged in response to the July 22, 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway. Police and security forces hope that by keeping a closer eye on online activities, they will be able...
- Posted on 03/Aug/2011; tagged in Data retention, Europe, Germany, Hate speech, Legislation, Political filtering, Turkey
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 29, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 29/Jul/2011; tagged in Asia, Data retention, Europe, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Take-down, Threats to the Open Net, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Republican Rep Opposes FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal in Congress
Today, Republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn slammed Federal Communication Commission's new proposal on net neutrality and argued against the government's attempts to regulate the Internet. During the State of the Net conference, the Tennessee representative who also serves on the House's...
- Posted on 18/Jan/2011; tagged in Data retention, IP blocking, Legislation, Social filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: McDonald's Blocks Gay Websites in New Zealand
News sources in New Zealand have reported that McDonald's may be actively censoring gay and lesbian online content in the country. The fast food chain's Wi-Fi network has come under attack from New Zealand's gay community for its apparent blocking...
- Posted on 17/Jan/2011; tagged in Australia/New Zealand, Data retention, New Zealand, Obscenity, Social filtering, Take-down
ONI Blog: Sex-Positive vb.ly Taken Down by Libyan Domain Provider
URL shortening website vb.ly has been disabled by Libyan authorities after domain registry NIC.ly (also known as Lybia Spider) ruled that it had violated its terms and conditions. Headed by Ben Metcalfe and Violet Blue since August 2009,...
- Posted on 10/Oct/2010; tagged in Data retention, DNS tampering, Internet tools filtering, Libya, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Take-down
ONI Blog: Can they hear me now? (On ICT regulations, governments, and transparency)
On February 11, Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, revealed that Vodafone handed over communications data to the Egyptian authorities in response to government demands. This data may have been used to help identify rioters who were...
- Posted on 24/Feb/2009; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Data retention, Egypt, Human rights, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Privacy, Surveillance
ONI Blog: English Newspapers Self-Censor on Release of Personal Information
Last week a disgruntled former employee of the far-right British National Party (BNP) leaked his party's membership list to the public, unleashing a torrent of Internet activity as Brits scrambled to find who in their neighborhood might be members. Yet while the...
- Posted on 25/Nov/2008; tagged in Data retention, Europe
ONI Blog: ONI Affiliate Reveals Chinese Surveillance of Skype Messages
Groundbreaking research by an ONI affiliate made major news today. Nart Villeneuve, a fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, revealed in a joint Information Warfare Monitor/ONI Asia report Wednesday TOM-Skype, a special software for using Skype in...
