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....
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...
EFF on January 17, 2013 By Katitza Rodriguez This is the first in a series of posts mapping state surveillance challenges in Latin America and lessons learned at EFF’s State Surveillance Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. What happens when you place a mix of journalists, technologists, human rights lawyers, digital rights activists, and victims of surveillance from around the world in a room to map the problems of electronic...
The use of internet technology sell by private firms to allow surveillance and censorship by dictatorial governments against their opponents is well known since WikiLeaks released their “SpyFiles”. Here, we have another example of these practices. Published in New York Times on January 16, 2013 (via La Quadrature du Net) A Canadian human rights monitoring group has documented the use of American-made Internet surveillance and censorship technology by...
When a former senior White House official describes a nationwide surveillance effort as “breathtaking,” you know civil liberties activists are preparing for a fight. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the little-known National Counterterrorism Center, based in an unmarked building in McLean, Va., has been granted sweeping new authority to store and monitor massive datasets about innocent Americans. After internal wrangling over privacy and civil liberties issues, the Justice...
Published on December, 13th, 2012, by Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:25am The Wall Street Journal today published (alternate link) an in-depth review of a new, relatively unknown program run by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Although we have been warning about the dangers of the program for months, and I testified before Congress about the issue in July, the Journal’s story conveys how controversial...
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