Although the Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling on the right to be forgotten was made with intention of protecting European citizens’ personal data, the court’s ruling opens the door for anyone to request that anything be hidden from a search engine database with no legal oversight.
All states, autocratic or otherwise, have made it their business to stifle internet freedoms. They just disagree on how best to do it, Binoy Kampmark writes
Today’s decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union violates the fundamental principles of freedom of expression. The court’s ruling means that, under certain circumstances, information can be removed from search engine results even if...
Index on Censorship is calling on the Rt Hon Theresa May MP to launch an urgent investigation into why Cambridgeshire Police visited the home of a Twitter user, demanding him to remove a tweet about a political party despite the fact he had committed no crime
As Azerbaijan is about to assume the Chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, a new report details cases of violations of the right to artistic freedom of expression over the past three years in the country. According to the...
Last Tuesday “hacktivist journo” Barrett Brown pled guilty in a US court after a long-running battle with the FBI. He had reported on a high-profile Anonymous hack as well as posting provocative videos on YouTube baiting FBI officials. Alastair Sloan reports
A fundamental feature of Obama’s reform agenda centres on a greater oversight role regarding surveillance applications assessed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Binoy Kampmark reports
Index on Censorship’s Melody Patry was a guest on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story
Index on Censorship’s Melody Patry speaks to Al Jazeera
India was among the few governments that did not sign the NETmundial outcome statement. But why does it seem that the world’s largest democracy is not putting its weight behind a “bottom-up, open, and participatory” multistakeholder process? Mahima Kaul reports
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