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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 20 Oct 2008
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about online free expression in the United Arab Emirates following recent comments by leading Internet sector officials. The spokesman for the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), which oversees the EAU’s Internet, said on 17 October that the authority was considering “deliberately blocking” access to part of the social networking website Facebook.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 20 Oct 2008
The censoring of the press and the internet in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is at odds with the requirements of the successful 21st-century economy the United Arab Emirates seeks to become, says Christopher M Davidson.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 17 Oct 2008
As in-flight Internet service becomes reality, inappropriate content a worry
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 17 Oct 2008
The website of Turkey's third largest-selling newspaper has been blocked following a complaint by an Islamic creationist.
The case will revive concerns about the country's attitude towards internet censorship and press freedom.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 17 Oct 2008
The Communications Data Bill, suggested by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, proposes that all UK residents’ mobile and Web communication should be stored by the ISPs and MSPs in a giant database for 12 months. Actual content of conversations would not be stored, just times and dates of e-mails and calls. However, storing information on visited websites is also mentioned, and if that’s not an invasion of privacy, I don’t know what is.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 13 Oct 2008
Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 10 Oct 2008
The Pirate Bay has won a court case in Italy appealing a judge’s decision to have ISPs block access to the torrent tracker, reports TorrentFreak.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 10 Oct 2008
Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship Friday after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 09 Oct 2008
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 09 Oct 2008
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, during his official visit to the 63rd Assembly of the United Nations last month, gave an interview to the U.S.-based Cable News Network that involved some questions on sensitive issues. Although the complete transcript of the interview is freely available on the Internet in English, its coverage in China remains largely restricted.
