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Maja Andjelkovic
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Privacy/Monitoring Online
March 6, 2003 - 12:54 PM
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More from CNN at:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/05/net.forfeitures.ap/index.html
This post was edited on: 2006-11-06 at 12:02 PM by: Maja
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alberto
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Privacy & ICT and Rights
March 7, 2003 - 10:01 AM
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You can find some information on these issues on:
<p>http://servizi.radicalparty.org/tech_revolution/index.php</p>
Some articles may seem "political" opinions but overall there's lots of interesting news and many diverse prospectives: a festival of freedom of expression!
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Terri Willard
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Pakistan sets up cyber crime wing
March 13, 2003 - 12:04 PM
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It's interesting to see that cyber-crime units and policies are starting to spring up in many countries.
According to http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/13/pakistan.cyber.ap/index.html, "A Pakistani security agency has launched a special wing to combat cyber crimes in part because the country had to rely on U.S. investigators to trace e-mails sent by the kidnappers of American journalist Daniel Pearl a year ago."
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giuliano gennaio
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Communication minister censors privately-owned radio stations in Cameroon
March 24, 2003 - 08:46 AM
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Reporters Without Borders today called on the Cameroonian government to rescind its decision announced on 14 March by communication minister Jacques Fame Ndongo to close Magic FM, a privately-owned radio station based in Yaoundé. The radio station's closure came less than a month after the authorities shut down two privately-owned TV channels, RTA and Canal 2, on 19 February.
"These decisions are unacceptable, especially as they prevent the population from forming an objective assessment of the performance of President Paul Biya's government at time when the country is heading toward elections," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard said. A presidential election is due to be held in the first quarter of 2004.
Magic FM is accused of "affront" to the president and state institutions, calls for "sedition", "dissemination of false news" and generally "disturbing the peace and moral standards." One of its programmes, "Magic Attitude," often criticised President Biya. It accused Biya of financing sects led by former Rosicrucian Raymond Bernard, founder of the "Renewed Order of the Temple" and "Circes." It drew attention to the embezzlement of funds assigned to a road project and the fact that several Biya associates held more one government post at the same time. It also criticised the banning of the weekly Tribune de l'Est by the minister for local government and decentralisation.
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Terri Willard
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ACLU cyberchief worried about privacy
March 31, 2003 - 01:47 AM
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Another interesting article on how the ACLU in America has been trying to beat back a technology-propelled surveillance society since the September 11 attacks.
According the ACLU chief privacy officer, "snoops could try to tap into the calendar to see his meeting schedule. They could ask his service provider for phone and e-mail records. If Steinhardt were to upgrade to a device with global-positioning capabilities, investigators might even track his whereabouts. Though the government isn't necessarily doing any of this, Steinhardt fears it's just a matter of time."
Read more at http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/30/profile.steinhardt.ap/index.html
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alberto
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Re: "The government is able to monitor the Web-surfing activities"
April 2, 2003 - 09:30 AM
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Four Chinese detained for posting online articles
http://www.dfn.org/news/china/four.htm
In the last three weeks, Chinese police have detained three individuals for posting articles on the Internet, according to Chinese human rights organisations. The detentions of Zhang Yuxiang, Luo Changfu, Yuan Langsheng, and Jiang Lijun are apparently part of an ongoing campaign to stifle criticism of China's restrictions on speech on the Internet.
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Keyvan Sayar
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Re: "The government is able to monitor the Web-surfing activities"
April 10, 2003 - 12:01 PM
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Hi Guys
I would like to pinpoint the fact that it's not only third-world pseudo-democratic countries that challenge freedom of expression over the internet.
Indeed the USA, Great Britain, France and Germany have all made it compulsory for internet access providers to give them a huge amount of data on the surfers : they have to give all the addresses each of their customers has visited every year.
In the USA thanks to a 2001 law, the FBI has even been allowed to search through your e-mail (without notifying you) and use it against you... thus countering the famous Supreme Court "fruit-of-a-poisoned-tree" theory.
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alberto
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Re: "The government is able to monitor the Web-surfing activities"
April 19, 2003 - 02:50 AM
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China blocks Website of Reporters Without Borders
The Reporters Without Borders Website has been inaccessible in China since at least 14 April. Chinese authorities may have blocked it because of a press release on the site about the extended imprisonment of cyber-dissident Liu Di, the organisation said. China has already blocked access to dozens of sites of media outlets and human rights groups.
The Chinese authorities systematically block access to websites containing "dangerous or subversive" material. A survey done by Harvard University's Berkam Center between last May and November showed that more than 50,000 of 204,000 sites sought through the Google and Yahoo ! were inaccessible at least once from at least one place inside China.
The main ones blocked were those about Tibet, Taiwan and democracy. More than 60 per cent of the Tibet sites and more than 47 per cent of the Taiwan sites listed by Google were blocked.
Last October, the following websites were still inaccessible in China : hrichina.org (Human Rights Watch in China), hrw.org (Human Rights Watch), amnesty.org, amnesty.org.uk, amnestyusa.org (Amnesty International), freetibet.org (the organisation Freetibet), tibet.com (the Tibetan government in exile), cnn.com (the US TV network CNN), bbc.co.uk (the BBC), washingtonpost.com (the US daily the Washington Post), 6-4tianwang.com (the site of cyber-dissident Huang Qi) and bignews.com (the dissident online paper VIP Reference).
Even though cases like the one above are still registered often, progress in access shows how things are gradually changing and therefore a demonstartion of how ICT and access to knowledge can be a fundamental tool in the growth of human and civil rights.
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