Surveillance
ONI Blog: ONI Affiliate Reveals Chinese Surveillance of Skype Messages
Groundbreaking research by an ONI affiliate made major news today. Nart Villeneuve, a fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, revealed in a joint Information Warfare Monitor/ONI Asia report Wednesday TOM-Skype, a special software for using Skype in...
ONI Blog: Surveillance Clamp-down in Beijing
Only one day before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games begin….and we’re not the only ones to notice.
The Chinese government has spread a stifling net of surveillance around the capital to allegedly ensure that the Olympics remain “safe”. This comes as...
ONI Blog: Bloggers Unite Against FISA Bill
Since the Senate approved the new FISA bill, the blogosphere has been in a state of upheaval, declaring it an infringement on the Bill of Rights. NPR recently reported that liberal and conservative bloggers have joined forces to...
ONI Blog: Facebook Faceoff
As spite spurs activism among the nation’s youth, Egypt contemplates banning Facebook- the infamous Social Networking Site (SNS) that has taken the country by storm.
The rising food prices and consequential rise in cost of living in Egypt has caused a great...
- Posted on 21/Jul/2008; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Political filtering
ONI Blog: South Korea considering closer watch on Internet after mass protests
After weeks of tumultuous protests inspired largely by South Korea’s young netizens, this country, one of the most wired and technology savvy in the world, is considering new ways to monitor the Internet.
In April, South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak’s decision...
Page: Surveillance
Research on surveillance has been of growing importance. Here is some information we have compiled:
Content around the site related to surveillance...
- Posted on 27/May/2008; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Phorm's Webwise
In recent weeks, there has been considerable press coverage of Webwise, an application designed by Phorm to track Web browsing behavior by ISP users and then target advertising at those users based on the sites that they visit. The coverage followed...
- Posted on 07/Apr/2008; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Removing blogs: a new form of Web censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
In addition to blocking blogs and arresting bloggers, a new form of censorship has started to emerge in the Middle East and North Africa: blog-hosting services removing blogs from their servers.
Arab bloggers complain that the major blog-hosting services, Maktoob Blog and...
- Posted on 03/Mar/2008; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance
ONI Blog: Is "Privacy and Security" a Zero-Sum Game?
According to Ed Giorgio, who is working with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell on a proposed cyber-security plan, "privacy and security are a zero-sum game." (Quoted from The Spymaster, a story about McConnell in the Jan. 21, 2008 New Yorker; story not...
- Posted on 15/Jan/2008; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Privacy International Releases "Leading Surveillance Societies in the EU and the World 2007"
At the end of last year, Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse (EPIC) released a report entitled "Leading Surveillance Societies in the EU and the World 2007". This report assesses the state of privacy in every EU...
- Posted on 09/Jan/2008; tagged in Surveillance
