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Date: 24 Jul 2012Last week Twitter announced it would appeal a decision by a New York judge requiring the company to turn over the tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester, citing the privacy rights of its users.0 comment(s)
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Date: 20 Jul 2012Categories: China, Iran, Ethiopia, Russia, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Human rights, Cybercrime and security, Threats to the Open Net, IP blocking
Russia's upper house of parliament passes controversial Internet legislation; Security firms discover new superbug plaguing the Middle East; China increases online censorship to microblogging platforms; Ethiopia sentences twenty bloggers and journalists to jail. -
Date: 16 Jul 2012Categories: United States of America, United States/Canada, Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Internet tools filteringA Reuters piece details the technologies Facebook utilizes to check for criminal activity. With these technologies, Facebook tracked a man in his thirties contacting a minor and subsequently alerted the authorities. This example highlights the tactics some social media companies are beginning to adopt to protect their users.
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By: Melody ZhangDate: 13 Jul 2012Categories: Canada, Sudan, Russia, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Defamation, Human rights, Surveillance, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
The Russian Duma passes a controversial internet bill after days of online protest and speculation; #Sudanrevolts continues as the government cracks down on dissent; and the European Commission denies similarities between ACTA and CETA, while netizens remain unconvinced. -
Date: 13 Jul 2012Categories: Sudan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Intermediary Censorship, Political filtering, IP blockingSince we blogged about the rumored Internet blackout in Sudan a couple of weeks ago, the Sudanese government continues to crack down on online news sites that report on the ongoing clashes between riot police and University of Khartoum students taking to the streets in protest of the regime.
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By: Rebekah HeacockDate: 12 Jul 2012Data collected from Oman shows that web filtering applied by India-based ISPs is restricting access to content for customers of an ISP in Oman. While unusual, content filtering undertaken in one political jurisdiction can have an effect on users in another political jurisdiction as a result of ISP routing arrangements - a phenomenon known as "upstream filtering."
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Date: 09 Jul 2012Categories: United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Cybercrime and security
Following a raid in November 2011, the FBI has finally shut down the servers associated with the malware DNSChanger. After giving people a seven month interim period to patch their system, the FBI today cut off anyone without the patch from the web. It was expected to shut off thousands of people and companies around the world, although no major complications have since been reported. -
Date: 06 Jul 2012Categories: United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Legislation, Threats to the Open Net
Twitter releases Transparency Report; Declaration of Internet Freedom introduced; EU Parliament rejects ACTA -
By: Marianna MaoDate: 29 Jun 2012Categories: Sudan, New Zealand, Australia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Australia/New Zealand, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering
Sudan targets internet activists; Telstra tracks mobile users' web browsing; Dotcom raid ruled illegal -
By: Melody ZhangDate: 27 Jun 2012Categories: Sudan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Take-down, Human rights, Political filtering, Conflict and security filteringRecent protests in Sudan have led to even tighter state control of both foreign and non-foreign news sources, especially information that is circulated online. However, rumors of an Internet shutdown appear to be unsubstantiated for now.
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By: Marianna MaoDate: 26 Jun 2012Citizen Lab has concluded that in the Syrian conflict, a single set of loyalists has likely been responsible for two separate anti-opposition malware attacks.
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Date: 22 Jun 2012Categories: India, Iran, United States of America, Israel, Russia, Denmark, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Legislation, Copyright, Cybercrime and security, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
Google releases bi-annual transparency report; debate continues over the upcoming international conference on telecommunications and the UN's role regarding the Internet; the US and Israel collaborated to design superbug 'Flame'; Danish ISPs and copyright holders agree upon a new framework for enforcing online copyright infringement. -
Date: 21 Jun 2012The upcoming World Conference of International Telecommunications is creating a lot of debate about the both the secrecy of the summit, and the potential proposals to be presented. Two researchers have released WCITLeaks, an online forum for people to submit documents relating to the conference. The details of the documents have caused debate about the role of the UN in terms of the Internet.
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Date: 18 Jun 2012A Harvard research team has just released a paper discussing China's tactics in Internet censorship. Key findings include censorship aimed toward quelling collective action, and not necessarily all anti-government content. Further, the study hints at the possibility of predicting future political actions based on China's past censorship selections.
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By: Melody ZhangDate: 15 Jun 2012Categories: Iran, United States of America, Ethiopia, United Kingdom, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Surveillance, Cybercrime and security, Privacy, Anonymity, Data retention, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and software
UK releases draft of the controversial Communications Bill; the Ethiopian government increases surveillance to include Internet-based voice communications; a White House-authorized leak reveals that cyberbug Flame was developed by the US to undermine Iranian nuclear efforts; and a new HTTP status code is proposed for censorship.
