BBC News - Yahoo targeted in China cyber attacks
BBC News reports: "The Yahoo e-mail accounts of foreign journalists based in China and Taiwan have been hacked, according to a Beijing-based press association [...] The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) has confirmed eight cases of Yahoo e-mail hacks in recent weeks. Yahoo said it condemned such cyber-attacks."
2010/03/31
BBC News - Google says Vietnam mine opponents under cyber attack
BBC News reports: "Internet giant Google says malicious software has been used to spy on tens of thousands of Vietnamese web users. The company said the cyber attacks appeared to target opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam."
BBC News reports: "Internet giant Google says malicious software has been used to spy on tens of thousands of Vietnamese web users. The company said the cyber attacks appeared to target opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam."
BBC News - India launches 'biometric' census
BBC News reports: "India is launching a census in which every person over the age of 15 will be photographed and fingerprinted to create a biometric national database [...] The first 16-digit identity numbers are due to be issued starting in November."
BBC News reports: "India is launching a census in which every person over the age of 15 will be photographed and fingerprinted to create a biometric national database [...] The first 16-digit identity numbers are due to be issued starting in November."
2010/03/26
My Way News - UK police asks Internet cafes to monitor customers
My Way News reports: "Scotland Yard is advising administrators of public Web spaces to periodically poke through their customers' files and keep an eye out for suspicious activity [...] Posters and computer desktop images emblazoned with Scotland Yard's logo are also being distributed."
My Way News reports: "Scotland Yard is advising administrators of public Web spaces to periodically poke through their customers' files and keep an eye out for suspicious activity [...] Posters and computer desktop images emblazoned with Scotland Yard's logo are also being distributed."
2010/03/23
My Way News - China thwarts Google's detour around censorship
My Way News reports: "Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement."
My Way News reports: "Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement."
2010/03/22
BBC News - Google stops censoring search results in China
BBC News reports: "Google has stopped censoring its search results in China, ignoring warnings by the country's authorities. The US company said its Chinese users would be redirected to the uncensored pages of its Hong Kong website."
BBC News reports: "Google has stopped censoring its search results in China, ignoring warnings by the country's authorities. The US company said its Chinese users would be redirected to the uncensored pages of its Hong Kong website."
2010/03/19
My Way News - Net produces new generation of China activists
My Way News reports: "China blocks online materials it deems to be harmful or pornographic, which frequently includes information that contradicts the views of the ruling Communist Party. Such restrictions prompted Internet giant Google to announce in January that it may close China-based Google.cn because it no longer wanted to cooperate with Beijing's Internet censorship. But there is a vibrant community of tech-savvy users who can easily hop over the 'Great Firewall' that blocks access to sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. They are a minority of the 384 million people online in China but among the most vocal: young, educated, liberal-minded and unafraid of questioning the Communist government."
My Way News reports: "China blocks online materials it deems to be harmful or pornographic, which frequently includes information that contradicts the views of the ruling Communist Party. Such restrictions prompted Internet giant Google to announce in January that it may close China-based Google.cn because it no longer wanted to cooperate with Beijing's Internet censorship. But there is a vibrant community of tech-savvy users who can easily hop over the 'Great Firewall' that blocks access to sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. They are a minority of the 384 million people online in China but among the most vocal: young, educated, liberal-minded and unafraid of questioning the Communist government."
2010/03/16
MSNBC - Google appears to drop censorship in China
MSNBC reports: "Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing's censorship rules."
MSNBC reports: "Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing's censorship rules."
2010/03/11
My Way News - Report finds online censorship more sophisticated
My Way News reports: "Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday. China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the group's 'Enemies of the Internet' list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents' attempts to communicate online [...] Meanwhile, Turkey and Russia found themselves on the group's 'Under Surveillance' list of nations in danger of making the main enemies list."
My Way News reports: "Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday. China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the group's 'Enemies of the Internet' list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents' attempts to communicate online [...] Meanwhile, Turkey and Russia found themselves on the group's 'Under Surveillance' list of nations in danger of making the main enemies list."
2010/03/05
My Way News - Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies
My Way News reports: "It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. [...] The advocacy group Big Brother Watch found through a series of Freedom of Information requests that many local governments, called councils in Britain, are installing the microchips in trash cans distributed to households, but in most cases have not yet activated them - in part because officials know the move would be unpopular. [...] The government's ambitious information-gathering plans go still further. Security officials working on counterterrorism plans are lobbying for the power to monitor every e-mail, text, and phone call made in the U.K. The country already maintains an extensive DNA database that is, per capita, the largest in the world."
My Way News reports: "It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. [...] The advocacy group Big Brother Watch found through a series of Freedom of Information requests that many local governments, called councils in Britain, are installing the microchips in trash cans distributed to households, but in most cases have not yet activated them - in part because officials know the move would be unpopular. [...] The government's ambitious information-gathering plans go still further. Security officials working on counterterrorism plans are lobbying for the power to monitor every e-mail, text, and phone call made in the U.K. The country already maintains an extensive DNA database that is, per capita, the largest in the world."
2010/03/02
My Way News - German court overturns law on phone, e-mail data
My Way News reports: "Germany's highest court on Tuesday overturned a law that let anti-terror authorities retain data on telephone calls and e-mails, saying it posed a 'grave intrusion' to personal privacy rights and must be revised. [...] Germans are sensitive to privacy issues, based on their experiences under the Nazis as well as in the former East Germany's Communist dictatorships."
My Way News reports: "Germany's highest court on Tuesday overturned a law that let anti-terror authorities retain data on telephone calls and e-mails, saying it posed a 'grave intrusion' to personal privacy rights and must be revised. [...] Germans are sensitive to privacy issues, based on their experiences under the Nazis as well as in the former East Germany's Communist dictatorships."
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