• Error: Court Halts Internet Freedom in Turkey
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 27 Oct 2008
    The latest in a series of bans on popular Web sites has spurred many to question the future of Internet freedom in Turkey. Turkish Internet users trying to access the popular blog-hosting service blogspot.com get an error message saying that access to the site has been blocked by a court decision, without stating the court ruling or explaining why the service has been banned.
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  • Australia trials national net filters
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 26 Oct 2008
    Is the Rudd government about to erect a Great Firewall of Australia - introducing a form of internet censorship that will infringe upon the freedom of computer users to browse the worldwide web?
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  • Access to Blogger.com Banned in Turkey
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 26 Oct 2008
    As of today access to the popular blogging website Blogger.com has been blocked in Turkey with a blocking order of the Diyarbakir First Criminal Court of Peace (dated 20.10.2008 and order no. 2008/2761). The reason for issuing the order ban is unknown but a considerable number of Turkish users are affected including myself who contribute to a popular an anti censorship blogging site at http://sansuresansur.blogspot.com/.
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  • Digital values
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 24 Oct 2008
    We take our values, rights and responsibilities for granted, and we believe that they apply universally. But in practice, we have different values, double standards for the internet and the rest of the world. We believe that our rights and responsibilities somehow change when new technology comes into play.
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  • NSW to censor student laptops
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 24 Oct 2008
    The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) this week revealed plans to limit internet access on the laptops given to the state's senior students under the "digital education revolution" to a pre-approved list of websites.
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  • Censoring online porn is a slippery slope, warn activists
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 23 Oct 2008
    Porn sites blocked in name of 'protecting children', but tactics will hamper free speech
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  • German privacy watchdogs agree social networking ground rules
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 22 Oct 2008
    Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people's use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a panel of all that country's data protection officials.
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  • Plug Pulled on Hamas' YouTube Ripoff
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 22 Oct 2008
    A few weeks ago, Western intelligence officials discovered that the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas had set up a video-sharing site — to spread propaganda and to train would-be terrorists. Now, that radical Islamic answer to YouTube is offline. And jihadists are blaming the FBI for the takedown.
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  • ISPs are pressed to become child porn cops
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 20 Oct 2008
    New law, new monitoring technology raise concerns about privacy
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  • Internet phone calls are crippling fight against terrorism
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 20 Oct 2008
    The huge growth in internet telephone traffic is jeopardising the capability of police to investigate almost every type of crime, senior sources have told The Times. As more and more phone calls are routed over the web – using software such as Skype – police are losing the ability to track who has called whom, from where and for how long.
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