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"نهت لجنة البحوث والدراسات باللجنة القانونية بحزب الحرية والعدالة وضع اللمسات النهائية لمشروع قانون لمكافحة جرائم المعلوماتية، والذى ينص على مكافحة جرائم الهاكرز ومنشئ المواقع الإرهابية والإباحية ويتكون مشروع القانون الذى تنشره "بوابة الأهرام" من 13 مادة ننشر نصوصها كاملة. "

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"Data visualization can offer some unique insights into social upheaval. But the data artists are just getting started. "

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"Millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web and cut off from popular social networking sites and email services, as the government has announced its plans to establish a national Intranet within five months."

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"In April, OR Books published Tweets from Tahrir, a book of tweets sent from Ground Zero of the democratic revolution that played out in Egypt last year. The book, its promotions declare, "brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fast-paced narrative, allowing the story of the uprising to be told directly by the people in Cairo's Tahrir Square. History has never before been written in this fashion." "

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Twitter's credibility seems to be jeopardized after proclaiming its plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that breaks local laws, as the youthful company had long prided itself in promoting unfettered expression

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Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

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You sure heard of the Internet blackhole Egypt lived in when Mubarak's regime shut down the whole internet during January revolution. Other countries are filtering and censoring the Internet, Tunisia, Syria and Iran are just few examples. And recently the availability of the internet to the demonstrators in the Occupy Wall Street movement is an essential issue.

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You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you're political. You come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the death threats. After a while, the emails and tweets and comments containing graphic fantasies of how and where and with what kitchen implements certain pseudonymous people would like to rape you cease to be shocking, and become merely a daily or weekly annoyance,

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The impact of social media on revolutionary movements like Egypt’s has been hashed out to the precipice of cliché, with scholars still puzzling over how networks online and off contributed to the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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"A research arm of the intelligence community wants to sweep up public data on everything from Twitter to public webcams in the hopes of predicting the future."

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"If there's one thing that net-savvy activists from Tunisia to Bahrain are aware of, it’s that the Internet isn’t always safe. From the constant threat of surveillance to the knowledge that posting the wrong picture on Facebook can get you arrested - or worse - activists have for a long time taken measures to mitigate risks, censoring themselves, using special tools like Tor, or staying off certain networks altogether."

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"As part of an emerging international trend to try to 'civilize the Internet', one of the world's worst Internet law treaties--the highly controversial Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on Cybercrime--is back on the agenda."

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"As internet penetration continues to grow in the region, the need for data on online behavior is becoming increasingly crucial for both consumers and businesses. Google MENA today announced the launch of their latest service, Insights MENA."

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"Criticism is growing of the sentences imposed on some convicted rioters after two men were jailed for four years for posting messages on Facebook inciting people to create disorder in their home towns."

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"According to the Arab Social Media Report (ASMR) produced by the Dubai School of Government's Governance and Innovation programme, the Arab region houses 30 to 40 million Twitter users that are considered “active”. "

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Mohamed says the revolution would have happened if social media was not there, but it would have taken a little longer.

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In New York Monday, one of the Arab world's most influential bloggers talked about his experience galvanizing political change through digital media. Egyptian blogger, software developer and democracy activist Alaa Abd Al Fattah is at the Personal Democracy Forum along with some 1,000 political activists, digital technologists and government officials from across the world.

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Gamma Internationa's Finfisher program would have enabled government spies to monitor activists and censor websites

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"Two days after using Flickr to display photos of police officers from Egypt’s feared state security force, Hossam el-Hamalawy watched in disbelief as they vanished, one by one, from the popular social networking site, which he had been using since 2008. "

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Egyptian police used the very instrument that sparked the recent anti-government rebellion, social media, to catch its youthful organizers, according to a published report.

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