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Russia ‘tried to cut off’ World Wide Web
Russia has run large scale experiments to test the feasibility of cutting the country off the World Wide Web, a senior industry executive has …
Has China silenced its bloggers?
Two years ago Sina Weibo – China’s equivalent of Twitter – was crawling with tales of political scandal. Today those stories are harder to …
Russian cyberwar advances military interests in Ukraine, report says
As troops prepare to move, cyber activity flares. Cyberwar does not take place in vacuum. When a geopolitical showdown is underway, nation states have …
IT security is not an optional extra
IT security is often thought of as being a cost to business, rather than a source of revenue, leading many organisations to see whether …
How a team of social media experts is able to keep track of the UK jihadis
Another Briton had died in Syria, and back in London investigators were busy “scraping” through his online peer network for clues about fellow Islamic …
UK Government is most open but one of worst for spying, says inventor of the world wide web
The UK government is the best in the world for making its data open — but one of the worst for surveillance and spying …
Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman’s Case Against NSA Spying
EFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit Seattle – An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, …
Facebook data mining for political views
Facebook is mining its data of users’ posts to find out how users feel about certain candidates or issues and sharing that data with …
Hungary suspends Internet tax after huge protests
Following large-scale protests, Hungary’s prime minister said Friday that the government would suspend a planned tax on Internet use and reconsider the matter next …
Mass internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims
Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies is “corrosive of online privacy” and threatens to undermine international law, according to a report to …
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