“If the NSA wants to get into your system, they are going to get in . . . . Most of the people in my community are realistic about that,” said Christopher Soghoian, a computer security expert at the American Civil Liberties Union on Google’s data encryption amid backlash against NSA spying.. [Source: Washington Post, Country: USA,…
“The founding members of internet.org — Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung — will develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments to bring the world online..” [Source: CIOL [Country: CA-USA, August 21, 2013 ]
The Supreme Court cited how rumours on clashes in Myanmar had forced people from the northeast to leave Bangalore in droves in August, last year.” … [Source: NDTV India, Country: India, August 16, 2013]
“Stop watching us” was the major slogan at placards held by many at Berlin on Saturday when thousands of people protested the NSA’s alleged mass surveillance of Internet users…” [Source: Huffington Post, Country: Germany, August 9, 2013 ]
“Internet Policy and Freedom of Expression Examined through Workshops in the Middle East and North Africa..” [Source: Internews.org, Country/Region: Middle East and North Africa , July 10, 2013 ]
“How the top-secret PRISM program allows the U.S. intelligence community to gain access from nine Internet companies to a wide range of digital information, including e-mails and stored data, on foreign targets operating outside the United States.. “ [Source: Washington Post, Country: USA, July 10, 2013 ]
Speaksafe provides journalists, citizen reporters, bloggers and media workers with a series of simple yet effective practices to maintain control over their information and communications…
[Source: Internews.org, Country/Region: Middle East and Europe, June 27, 2013 ]
“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under,” Edward Snowden, former CIA employee told the Guardian newspaper, he added,…
“We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly logged and tracked by government,” said Alex Fowler, head of privacy and public policy for Mozilla, which produces the Firefox browser.” US intelligence leak sparks fierce Internet freedom debate.. [Source: NDTV, Country/Region: Washington, US, June 12, 2013]
“We understand that the US and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety including sometimes by using surveillance. But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish.” Google’s Larry Page calls Internet spying threat to freedom – [Source: Gadgets.NDTV, Country/Region: California, US, June 10,…