Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, Search result removal, Human rights, Cybercrime and security, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Reverse filtering, Overblocking, DNS tampering, IP blocking, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Malaysia considers, backs down from national Internet filter
Last week Malaysia's Information, Communications and Culture Minister Dr. Rais Yatim announced that the country would consider implementing a nationwide Internet filtering plan similar to China's Green Dam. This week, the Prime Minister pulled an about face, claiming there...
- Posted on 13/Aug/2009; tagged in Malaysia, Asia, Legislation, Obscenity, Cybercrime and security, Social filtering
ONI Blog: “Financial Panic” and Online Censorship in Guatemala
The headlines in Guatemala's top newspaper, as well as on internationally popular site Boing Boing reported that a Twitter user was arrested by Guatemalan authorities, facing charges of “intent to incite financial panic." The last couple of weeks have been complicated...
ONI Blog: Restriction on Internet use in the Middle East on the rise: Internet cafés in Saudi must install hidden cameras
In addition to technical filtering and surveillance practices, more countries in the Middle East impose restrictions on Internet use in cyber cafés. The latest example comes from Saudi Arabia where Internet cafés have been ordered by the Ministry of Interior to install...
- Posted on 16/Apr/2009; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: Ban ‘suicide chat rooms’
The father of an 18-year-old, who accessed "suicide chat rooms" on the internet before killing himself, has called for a law to ban them in the UK.
Six years after his son Simon Kelly died, Paul Kelly is still angry...
ONI Blog: Censura Não!: Brazilian Bloggers Protest New Cybercrime Bill
Brazil’s blogosphere has been overflowing with dissent over the most recent cybercrime legislation proposed by Senator Eduardo Azeredo. At the Blog Carnival Against Censorship this Saturday, bloggers expressed their overwhelming opposition to the Digital Crimes Bill. Global...
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