Surveillance
ONI Blog: Responses to Surveillance
For better or worse, surveillance is increasingly a part of modern life. Is it effective to continue to protest this increase, and to argue for a different tradeoff between security concerns and privacy or civil liberties? Or is it better to find...
- Posted on 17/Dec/2007; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Testing for Internet filtering during parliamentary elections in Jordan
ONI found no evidence of Internet tampering in Jordan during the November 20 parliamentary elections despite claims by the main opposition party that the polls were marred by vote-rigging and electoral fraud. ONI, through in-country testers, monitored online activities and accessibility...
- Posted on 25/Nov/2007; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Elections
ONI Blog: Blogs on Filtering (continued)
Two recent incidents point out the ever-present risk that "secure" communications are often only as secure as the provider of the communication service:
Nart on Google handing over the IP address of an Orkut user who posted allegedly criminal content to the...
- Posted on 14/Nov/2007; tagged in India, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Political satire, Internet surveillance, and user empowerment: A story of a remix clip from the Middle East
Internet users in the Middle East and North Africa exercise a great deal of self-censorship when they participate in Web forums where they discuss sensitive matters, especially political and social issues.
The story of a very popular remix provides us with a preliminary...
- Posted on 19/Oct/2007; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Bangladesh reportedly requiring ISPs to provide client, traffic information
According to E-Bangladesh, Bangladeshi authorities are now requiring ISPs to turn over various details about corporate clients as part of the the ongoing battle with unlicensed VoIP providers. The 3rd world view follows the story, including additional information...
- Posted on 04/Oct/2007; tagged in Asia, Surveillance
ONI Blog: How Secret Must Surveillance Be?
Accordiing to Haaretz.com, the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel has obtained evidence that cell phone licenses in Israel "contain a secret codicil requiring them to give the Shin Bet security service information about conversations and messages that its...
- Posted on 25/Sep/2007; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Filtering Proposed by EC Justice and Security Commissioner
It was recently reported that European Commission Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini is interested in finding ways to filter the Internet for terrorism-oriented activities, including searches for them.
In an interview with Reuters, Frattini stated, “I do intend to carry...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2007; tagged in Europe, Surveillance
ONI Blog: State-Sponsored Spyware
In the past two weeks, there have been two reports of pending legislation authorizing law enforcement officials to install spyware directly onto target computers. In Germany, news outlets recently obtained details of a proposal being considered by the legislature to authorize law...
- Posted on 13/Sep/2007; tagged in Surveillance
ONI Blog: Google shareholders vote down anti-censorship proposal
Google shareholders rejected anti-censorship resolution during the company's annual stockholder's meeting on May 10. This decision came after Google's board of directors recommended on April 4 that the company's shareholders vote down the anti-censorship proposal.
The proposal stated that "technology companies...
ONI Blog: Belarus tightens Internet controls (Times Online and AP)
"Belarussian authorities have imposed tougher restrictions on internet use, obliging owners of internet cafes and computer clubs to keep logs of websites accessed by customers and report them to security services." (Times Online and AP)...
