The Academy of Journalism and Media,part of the Neuchâtel University (Switzerland) organized today May 24, 2013, a conference titled “Fighting for Transparency: Lost Battle or Mission to Accomplish?” The conference objectives were: “The conference will focus on free access to information and on its political, economic and social implications. The Wikileaks case spawned a hype of scale around the concepts of open data. Even though it has been absent from...
Article published on May 20, 2013 by Freedom of the Press Foundation – Trevor Timm: “Last night, the Washington Post reported on a little known leak case involving former State Department official Stephen Kim. In an alarming new extreme, the Justice Department and FBI argue there’s “probable cause to believe” Fox News reporter James Rosen “has committed or is committing a violation of [the Espionage Act], as an aider and...
Published by Electronic Frontier Foundation - Mark M. Jaycox and Kurt Opsahl on February 25, 2013: The privacy-invasive bill known as CISPA—the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—was reintroduced in February 2013. Just like last year, the bill has stirred a tremendous amount of grassroots activism because it carves a loophole in all known privacy laws and grants legal immunity for companies to share your private information. EFF has compiled an FAQ detailing...
Published on March 11/12, 2013 by RSF (RWB): Today, 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. Around 180 netizens worldwide are currently in prison for providing news and information online....
Published by Glenn Greenwald on Guardian. February 7, 2013 The collective self-censorship over a US drone base in Saudi Arabia is but the latest act of government-subservient ‘journalism’ The US media, over the last decade (at least), has repeatedly acted to conceal newsworthy information it obtains about the actions of the US government. In each instance, the self-proclaimed adversarial press corps conceals these facts at the behest of the US...
By Reporters without Boarders. Published on Monday 4 February 2013. Updated on Tuesday 5 February 2013. Reporters Without Borders Germany, Reporters Without Borders International, Privacy International, Bahrain Watch, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights filed formal complaint with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against a surveillance software company on Friday 1st February. The OECD National Contact Points National...
RT @Noel_Laforet: Wikileaks last year revealation gets more credibility as Egyptian politicians discuss sabotaging Ethiopian Dam live.http:…about 1 week agofrom web
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