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November 25, 2014

Request for Comments on the Draft Data Protection and Privacy Bill, 2014

  With the advancement of technology, more organizations are using computers to store and process personal […]
November 23, 2014

U.K. ISPs Agree To Do More To Filter Extremist Content Online

The U.K. government’s latest crack down on terrorism is once again focusing on the digital sphere, […]
November 23, 2014

Mass surveillance: exceptional measure or dangerous habit?

The digital communications revolution has led to “perhaps the greatest liberation movement the world has ever […]
November 21, 2014

UN calls for balance between privacy and security

In a special discussion at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Flavia Pansieri, the United Nations […]
November 20, 2014

Complicity in Censorship: Facebook’s Latest Government Requests Report

For years, pundits and scholars have warned of the implications of social media companies capitulating to […]
November 20, 2014

Face Book report on requests made by different governments in the world

  Face Book report on requests made by different governments in the world.Find the link below; […]
November 20, 2014

Internet intermediaries

Internet intermediaries – such as internet service providers, search engines and social media platforms – play […]
November 19, 2014

Schneier on Security

Whatsapp Is Now End-to-End Encrypted Whatapp is now offering end-to-end message encryption: Whatsapp will integrate the […]
November 19, 2014

EFF backs new nonprofit free certificate authority “Let’s Encrypt

It will be overseen by Internet Security Research Group with backing from EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai […]
November 18, 2014

Online mass-surveillance: “Protect right to privacy even when countering terrorism” – UN expert

NEW YORK (23 October 2014) – United Nations human rights expert Ben Emmerson today urged Governments […]
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