“Gore said he favoured surveillance to ensure security, he described the efforts made public by the former Central Intelligence Agency employee as “outrageous” and “completely unacceptable.” [Source: The Canadian Press, November 7, 2013]
“The paper claims that a secret base on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, acts as hub for British and United States surveillance on the Middle East and surrounding regions, intercepting huge numbers of emails, phone calls and web traffic.” [Source: Grahamcluley.com, November 5, 2013]
“How multi-stakeholder works – or doesn’t work so well – will be the subject of a considerable number of panels and workshops in Bali.” [Source: IP-Watch.org, October 21, 2013]
“The Internet is currently less private, less safe and less free than at any stage in its development as a medium,” says Terence Shull, senior web researcher from idcloak Technologies that launches its high-speed global privacy network which, if adopted widely, the firm claims will free the Internet of surveillance, censorship and georestrictions. [Source:DALLAS, USA,…
“The leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure globally have met in Montevideo, Uruguay, to consider current issues affecting the future of the Internet. The Internet and World Wide Web have brought major benefits in social and economic development worldwide. Both have been built and governed in the public interest through…
“In the overall list of countries spied on by U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) programs, India stands at fifth place, with billions of pieces of information plucked from its telephone and internet networks just in 30 days.” [Source: The Hindu, Country: India, September 23, 2013]
“Shadowy government officials are blocking thousands of pages deemed undesirable. But they are not fast enough. So the government is now testing Canadian software that can block millions of sites a second.” ”The internet Pakistan is seeing is not the same as the rest of the world is seeing,” said Ronald Deibert of Citizen Lab.…
“The Global Network Initiative, which seeks to promote freedom of expression and privacy in the digital age, sent the requests to the 21 countries in the Freedom Online Coalition, which have committed to collaborating to advance internet freedom.”[Source: Skynews, Country: Australia, September 20, 2013]
“The reassurances comes as Beijing has embarked on a widespread crackdown on information on the internet, including the detention of several high-profile online commentators, known as Big Vs, and the threat of jail time for authors of posts that are untrue if they’re widely viewed or shared.” [Source: Quartz, September 18, 2013, China]
“A 65 years old cyber-dissident activist ‘Ngo Hao’ is sentenced to 15 years in prison for posting “subversive” articles online..” [Source: Reporters Without Borders, Country: Vietnam, September 13, 2013]