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‘Privacy and freedom from state intrusion’
Stephen Fry, Bianca Jagger and Anish Kapoor sign Index on Censorship petition to end mass surveillance by the NSA, GCHQ and other governments. Celebrities, artists, activists and politicians have signed an Index on Censorship petition calling for...
Mass surveillance or just Big Data?
States, and companies, collecting huge amounts of data on people and populations around the world. Is this a mass surveillance nightmare – the digital Stasi roaming free – or just big data and we should get over it? Kirsty Hughes writes
Can we change how we talk about the web?
If we want the web to be a positive place for young people, we need to start talking about the positive things that happen there, says Padraig Reidy
Index wins 2013 Hermann Kesten Prize from German PEN
Index on Censorship has been awarded the 2013 Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Center Germany. The award was given in recognition of Index's work fighting censorship around the world. In particular, the jury acknowledged Indexs lack of political...
Tell Europe’s leaders to stop mass surveillance #dontspyonme
Index on Censorship has launched a petition calling on European Union Heads of Government to stop the US, UK and other governments from carrying out mass surveillance.
David Cameron’s King Canute moment
The Prime Minister’s touching belief that he can clean up the web with technology is misguided and even dangerous, says Padraig Reidy
Index concerned by Cameron’s filter proposals
Index on Censorship is concerned that David Cameron’s internet filtering proposals may cause unwarranted censorship. Index CEO Kirsty Hughes said today: “Encouraging internet service providers to automatically turn filters on for legal content will...
Europe divided over mass surveillance?
Is there enough common ground between German, UK or even Russian politicians to push for real changes in US (and UK and French) snooping? Kirsty Hughes writes
Our last, best, hope?
Speaking to a gathering of internet industry executives, writer and broadcaster Bill Thompson called on them to stand up for freedom, however hard that may be.
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship