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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. "
"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."
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
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.
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.
"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."
"The British authorities, reeling from days of violent riots, have social media in the cross hairs."
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Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament on Thursday that if people are using social media to organize violence, as has been reported, than “we need to stop them.” He asked the police to tell him if they need “new powers” to do so.
Gamma Internationa's Finfisher program would have enabled government spies to monitor activists and censor websites
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A British company offered to sell a program to the Egyptian security services that experts say could infect computers, hack into web-based email and communications tools such as Skype and even take control of other groups' systems remotely, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
"The introductory section of this recent essay in the London Review of Books paints a disturbing nexus between the US government and major web companies. They seem worryingly comfortable assisting US foreign policy goals. Putting a nice, sexy face to occupation."
"IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.""
"Police in Britain arrested Julian Assange on Tuesday on a warrant issued in Sweden in connection with alleged sex offenses, British police officials said"
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday the Obama administration was considering using laws in addition to the U.S. Espionage Act to possibly prosecute the release of sensitive government information by WikiLeaks. "
"A report out of the U.K. this morning alleges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has created a “poison pill” document drop–filled with “damaging secrets” to be released in the event he’s arrested or killed."
"American pressure to dissuade companies in the US from supporting the WikiLeaks website has led to an online backlash in which individuals are redirecting parts of their own sites to its Swedish internet host."
Amazon Web Services dropped WikiLeaks material from its servers on Tuesday, a move that is widely assumed to be a direct response to pressure from the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
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A statement from Amazon disputed that, stating that they kicked WikiLeaks off for violating the terms of service: “For example, our terms of service state that ‘you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity.’”
Today on Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman reported on federal government threats to punish or blacklist individuals who have even the faintest association with Wikileaks.
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Accessing the Wikileaks website, linking to documents disclosed by Wikileaks, and commenting about Wikileaks disclosures via internet social media, may have negative consequences, warn government and university officials.
Australia's ex-PM Kevin Rudd advised US secretary of state to welcome Beijing onto world stage but keep force as a last resort
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