Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be “forgotten” by the world’s leading search engine on the first day it offered the service, a company spokesman in Germany said Saturday. The requests, submitted on Friday, came after Google set up an online form to allow Europeans to request the removal of results about them…
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior has announced that it’s looking for an offer from international companies to carry out surveillance on social networking websites. The decision has raised the alarm for many Egyptians who find the Internet a safe place to express political and social views on sites. Activists have criticized the law that would…
June 5 was Reset the Net day, when nearly 60 organizations came together to on the one-year anniversary of Edward Snowden’s infamous National Security Agency leaks to make a stand against government surveillance of the Internet. Reset the Net was more than just an online demonstration, though — it’s a project with specific and achievable goals designed to enhance…
The UK government’s legal justification for mass surveillance of the internet risks undermining public confidence in the intelligence services, a former Conservative security minister has warned. Speaking at a debate in University College London, Lady Neville-Jones, who has chaired Whitehall’s joint intelligence committee, backed calls for the law governing surveillance, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to…
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In a strong endorsement of India’s position, the five-nation Brics summit has come out with a strong condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and stressed that there can be no justification for any acts of terror based on ideological, political or religious issues. “We call upon all entities to refrain from financing,…
The new anti-surveillance technologies recently called for by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is much needed to ensure individuals’ privacy and protection from government, Yan Zhu, a San-Francisco based staff technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation, told RIA-Novosti Tuesday. “This is good and much needed right now. This is extremely important. In an age…
Last week, 23 civil society groups released the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms at the Internet Governance Forum. The Declaration was drafted by a committee led by Edetean Ojo , Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda, which announced the Declaration as “a Pan-African initiative to promote human rights standards and principles of openness in internet…
Journalists from the Southern African bloc were in Botswana for deliberations on the findings of an earlier survey on “Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace.” The survey conducted in June 2013 was via a partnership between the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and Privacy International (PI). Michael Phoya, the author of the report was quoted…
The Egyptian government has hired an online security firm for extensive monitoring of internet communication on various social platforms such as Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the state-owned Al Ahram newspaper reported on its website Thursday, citing a BuzzFeed News report. See Egypt, a reseller of U.S.-based Blue Coat’s products, has already started monitoring Egypt’s online communications…