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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 01 Aug 2011
The EFF has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a US federal court to block the government's use of the federal anti-stalking law to prosecute a man for posting criticism of a public figure to Twitter.
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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 01 Aug 2011
Following the high-profile crash of a high speed train in China, the reaction of the country's hundreds of millions of microbloggers defies censorship.
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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 01 Aug 2011
The recent deadly attacks in Norway demonstrate the necessity of the Turkish government’s plans to institute an Internet filtering system in August, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said Thursday.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 29 Jul 2011
On Friday, Japan denied that a government project to monitor online news reports and Twitter posts about the Fukushima nuclear crisis was an attempt to censor negative information and views.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 29 Jul 2011
The House Judiciary Committee voted 19 to 10 to recommend passage of H.R. 1981, a bill that contains a mandatory data retention provision requiring your Internet service providers to retain 12 months' worth of personal information that could be used to identify what web sites you visit and what content you post online.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
The Polish EU Presidency and the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove, convened an urgent meeting, on 28 July in Brussels, with European Commission, Europol, member states and Norwegian counter-terrorism experts, six days after the massacre in Norway perpetrated by a Norwegian right-wing extremist.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga wants to expand the government's ability to monitor people's online activities.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
Ahead of the presidential elections to be held on 30 October 2011, Central Elections Committee (CEC) came out with a controversial decision, barring web-based news media from taking part in the agitation campaign. Eleven news sites were denied accreditation to inform voters on the pre-election developments.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
Beijing Police has issued a notice to all the cafes and bars which provide Wi-Fi access to their customers to install a RMB20,000 monitoring system. Upon installation, users have to register their ID in the counter before logging in the Wi-Fi network.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
In response to the tragedy in Norway, Finland law enforcement has decided to increase its internet surveillance in hopes of picking up "weak signals" that could possibly indicate a terrorist threat.
