California software company admits that their filtering devices are being used by the Syrian government; National Counterintelligence Executive calls China biggest data thief in their annual report; hackers shut down the Internet in Palestine; courts order Britain's largest ISP to shut down Newzbin2.

A report released today by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive reveals China as the biggest thief of American intelligence cyber data with Russia following closely behind.

The Stop Online Piracy Act recently introduced to the House of Representatives is stirring up concern, with some questioning whether its passage would mean the end of the free Internet in the United States.

Judges orders French ISPs to block cop-watching site; the International Telecommunication Union Council meets in Geneva to discuss participation in a working group to create new Internet policies; the "Occupy the Web" hackathon draws programmers in San Francisco; the FIDH and LDH files a complaint against Amesys for complying with Libya's government in surveillance and data interception.

Android Market and Android's Gmail app are blocked in China; the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition emphasizes implementation of their Charter for online human rights; the U.S. government court orders Google to hand over information about a WikiLeaks volunteer; an attempt to attack the NYSE website slows down the homepage on Monday afternoon.

An international research team based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs has released a detailed report that tracks and analyzes the difficulties of broadcasting the news into jurisdictions that censor the Internet, including Iran and China.