Privacy
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2011 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2011 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Starting domestically, 2011 saw the beginnings of SOPA and PIPA, bills...
- Posted on 23/Apr/2012; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Data retention, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Privacy, Search result removal, Social filtering, Surveillance, Take-down, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 2, 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 02/Sep/2011; tagged in Asia, China, Geolocational Filtering, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Pakistan, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net, Uzbekistan
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 12, 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 12/Aug/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Privacy, Russia, Surveillance, Turkey, United Kingdom
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 1, 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 01/Jul/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, China, Elections, Europe, Legislation, Privacy, Thailand, Threats to the Open Net, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Google CEO Criticizes Chinese Internet Censorship
Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt criticized the Chinese government’s continued efforts to censor Internet content in the country at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Calling attention to a year-long dispute between Google and China concerning search...
- Posted on 11/Nov/2010; tagged in Asia, China, Europe, Germany, ONI, Political filtering, Privacy, Surveillance
ONI Blog: United Arab Emirates Arrests Activists, Bans BlackBerry Services
On July 29th, Reporters Sans Frontiers reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested one BlackBerry user, detained another, and are pursuing five activists. The activists were planning a protest via BlackBerry Messenger against the increasing price of gasoline, and, unable...
- Posted on 01/Aug/2010; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and software, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Privacy, Surveillance, United Arab Emirates
ONI Blog: Facebook: What is Private?
Users of Facebook beware: In a precedent-setting decision by a Toronto judge, a man injured in a car accident has been ordered to turn over information from his Facebook page which is off-limits to the public.
The lawyers of the lawsuit's defendant, Janice...
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: Global Online Freedom Act: How Do We Stop "Illegitimate" Law Enforcement?
Congress is considering new legislation to prevent US companies from assisting the censorship and surveillance regimes of so-called Internet-Restricting Countries (IRCs): China, Iran, and so forth. On balance, the Global Online Freedom Act would probably help companies make smarter decisions...
