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Don’t gerrymander the internet
Creating national networks will shackle the internet, inherently change its technical infrastructure, throttle innovation, and likely lead to far more dangerous privacy violations around the globe, Leslie Harris of Center for Democracy & Technology writes
Surveillance revelations take centre stage at global internet summit
Activists went head to head with government representatives as mass surveillance dominated discussions at the 2013 Internet Governance forum. Mike Harris reports
India challenges cyber governance and security
Just days before the United Nation’s led Internet Governance Forum in Indonesia, India, held its own – and first of its kind – conference on cyber governance and cyber security, Mahima Kaul writes
Index petition delivered via hard copy
Index decided it would be best to deliver our #DontSpyOnMe petition to EU leaders the old fashioned way…
Angela Merkel: Stop mass surveillance
‘If Angela Merkel does not like the idea of having her phone monitored by the NSA then she needs to do something about it.' Following allegations that the NSA monitored the mobile phone of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Index on Censorship...
EU leaders: Halt mass surveillance
Index on Censorship sent the following letter to Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council: I am writing to you on behalf of 40 non-governmental organizations (listed below)...
Facebook video policy attempts to ‘draw the line’ on free speech
The question anyone who defends free speech gets asked most frequently is “Where do you draw the line?” The announcement by Facebook today that it will allow users to post videos of beheadings is bound to raise that question, Padraig Reidy writes
Surveillance critic barred from US
Author Ilija Trojanow, a driving force behind an anti-surveillance campaign, was travelling to the US for a conference on German literature. That was his plan, anyway. At an airport in Brazil, he was told his entry to the US had been denied. No explanation was provided then, and none has been provided since, Milana Knezevic writes
Pakistan’s gay website ban reflects bigotry
Pakistan’s move to ban access to a gay website reflects the conservative society’s inability to accept a “larger world view”, activists say, Zofeen Ebrahim writes
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