Cybercrime is booming, with data hacking, identity theft and other malicious practices that continue to be practiced worldwide. Our digital lifestyle generates an impressive amount of information 2.5 trillion bytes of data each day. This figure reflects the growing number of computers, sensors and screens that surround us. The era of “surround computing” improves our
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Just before the presidential elections in Tajikistan, several websites have been censored in the country, including Youtube and Ozodagon a media website. Tajikistan voters re-elected without surprise President Emomali Rahmon on November 6th, for his fourth term since 1992. To demonstrate how open he is, Rahmon had ensured that the opposition could hardly be heard
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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According to Pokerfuse, one of Russia’s main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocked the international version of PokerStars.com, following a law of the Russian Supreme Court dated back from 2012. Russian poker players are one of the largest fan communities in poker. According to PokerTableRatings site, Russia is the 4th country in the world in terms
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To understand the Chinese censorship system, Gary King, a professor of political science at Harvard University was tricky to intrude inside. According to the Technology Review website, this professor and two colleagues created a fake Chinese social networking site in order to understand how censorship really operates in this country. We thus discover that the
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On August 3rd, China censored The Wall Street Journal, making it the third-largest U.S. media to be blocked by the “Great Wall Computer” The Chinese version of the Wall Street Journal is now inaccessible to Chinese users do not have to bypass techniques, as shown in the site GreatFire.org that monthly checks the availability of
Read More...A strict law intended to fight against movie piracy in Russia that involves blocking illegal websites, came into force on August 1st, despite the protests of the key players of the Internet sector. According to the new law text, issued on July 2nd by Vladimir Putin, a website offering pirated movies or videos can now
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In Vietnam, bloggers and cyber-dissidents contribute to bring alternative information which is independent of the government. They can talk about topics that are forbidden for the regime, such as corruption, environmental issues, political prospects, etc… Unfortunately, the number of bloggers, netizens and journalists being arrested for the freedom of speech has risen for the last
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“This article was censored for the Bettencourt scandal .” Mediapart and Le Point websites actually deleted all the articles and audio clips incorporating the extracts records from the billionaire Liliane Bettencourt. The sites thus respect the decision of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, which had held that the recordings violated the privacy of the famous owner
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The Jordanian government announced on June 3rd that unauthorized sites shall be blocked, which is now done: 254 local news sites have seen their access being denied, as they had not obtained a license, according to a controversial law in 2012. “16 local online news sites have been blocked in the last two days after
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