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Russia has forced Apple and Google to remove the LinkedIn mobile app from their Russian application markets, the latest chapter in a months-long campaign against the professional networking site. From a report on Fortune: A recently-passed Russian law … Continue reading Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply
Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal’s new anti-censorship feature uses a trick called "domain fronting," Marlinspike explains. A country like Egypt, with only a few small internet service providers tightly controlled by the government, can block any direct request to… Continue reading How Signal Is Evading Censorship
By Waqas
The online hacktivist Anonymous and their Thai counterparts have hacked into the servers of country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) and Royal Thai Navy – subsequently publicly leaking a trove of personal and official data. The cyber attack was conducted under the operation “OpSingleGateway” against the recently passed cyber-scrutiny law in the […]
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By Waqas
The government of Thailand has been under the hammer of internet activist groups since the parliament approved an amendment to the 2007 Computer Protection Law. There is strong resentment among activists because the Single Internet Gateway project will be implemented by the amended law, which was passed on Friday. The Single Internet Gateway project of […]
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As you may know in July KickassTorrents (KAT) websites was shut down by US authorities and its owner Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland. Since then, several KAT mirrors popped up and then disappeared but there was no sign of the original domain or the team. Now, good news is that KickassTorrents is back with […]
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By Waqas
Australian internet providers have been ordered by the Federal Court to block The Pirate Bay and four other websites on grounds of copyright infringement. The ruling was announced in the afternoon today and with this Australia received its first ever, successful site-blocking case. Read: ThePirateBay.se is now ThePirateBay.org Internet companies have received 15 days deadline to completely […]
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By Owais Sultan
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information has issued tough warnings to media organizations that relish spreading rumors to get heavy traffic on their websites that follows suite. In fact, the ministry has warned the organizations of tough legal action against those that spread fake news. Also Read: 7 Online Activities That Can Get You Arrested […]
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Be Prepared for Jail Time if You Post Fake News on Social Media in Saudi Arabia
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: A new study from The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, reveals that censorship on WeChat occurs primarily in group chats rather than one-on-one chats between two people, and oft… Continue reading China Is Censoring People’s Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It
Citizen Lab has analyzed how censorship works in the Chinese chat app WeChat: Key Findings: Keyword filtering on WeChat is only enabled for users with accounts registered to mainland China phone numbers, and persists even if these users later link the account to an International number. Keyword censorship is no longer transparent. In the past, users received notification when their… Continue reading Analyzing WeChat
Leaked documents show TiSA would let companies escape legal liability when removing content—whether by human or algorithm. Continue reading Secret Trade Proposal Would Give Facebook Free Reign to Censor by Algorithm