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| 22.05.2024 | Madagascar: Malagasy Internet Users Are Heavily Impacted By the Introduction of a New Pricing System That Hinders the Development of the Country's Digital Economy and Restricts Freedom of Expression. | On April 1, 2024, an internet price hike saw internet access become a rare commodity in Madagascar. Although internet services are a vital resource in this digital era, they have become a luxury for the select few who can afford them in thi... |
| 17.04.2024 | Africa Media Monitoring March 2024: Threats to press freedom in Chad, Nigeria, and Togo | Journalist Idriss Yaya killed in Chad
Africa Media Monitoring March 2024
In March 2024, IPI documented 15 threats to press freedom in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The most common types of attacks were physical attacks – including the... |
| 05.03.2023 | Nicaragua’s Political Repression Will Continue Despite Prisoner Release | Editor’s Note: Optimists hoped that the Feb. 11 prisoner release in Nicaragua signaled cracks in the dictatorial regime there, or at least some hope of reform. UC Santa Barbara’s Kai Thaler argues that any political opening in Nicaragua is ... |
| 03.03.2023 | Kenyan Court First To Tell Meta It Can’t Walk Away From A Lawsuit Just By Claiming It’s Not From Around Here | A lawsuit filed over exploitation of content moderators will be allowed to continue, according to a recent ruling by a Kenyan court. Former employees of Meta sued the company in the Kenya Employment and Labour Relations Court last year, all... |
| 07.09.2022 | Ещё одна китайская соцсеть предприняла попытку использовать «цифровые водяные знаки» | Китайские соцсети продолжают использовать инструменты, оставляющие «цифровые водяные знаки» на скриншотах. Первой это стала делать Douban в феврале 2022 года, а несколько дней назад к ней присоединилась Zhihu. Журналисты The Vice и Global V... |
| 11.02.2022 | Why Peng Shuai’s Denial That She Was Sexually Assaulted Only Raises More Questions for China | With the eyes of the world on China for the Winter Olympics, tennis star Peng Shuai appeared before the international media—assuring everyone that she had never actually accused a former top Chinese Communist Party official of sexual assaul... |
| 21.07.2021 | Is Integrated Media Technology a Good Software Stock to Buy Under $4? | July 21, 2021 5 min read This story originally appeared on StockNews
Hong Kong-based Integrated Media Technology (IMTE) is known for its glasses-free 3D display technology. But the price of its stock has declined nearly 7% over the past mon... |
| 07.05.2021 | A famous Puerto Rican boxer was charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend. Outrage has led to calls for the island to protect women from violence. | A woman member of a feminist collective holds a sign that reads in Spanish ‘I Want My Sisters Alive’ during a demonstration against sexual violence in front of the governor’s mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 3, 2021. RICARDO ARDUENG... |
| 02.11.2020 | How to End the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh | This fall, one of the world’s most protracted conflicts reignited in Nagorno-Karabakh. Since 1988, Armenia and Azerbaijan have sparred over the future of the majority-Armenian enclave, which is landlocked within Azerbaijan and subject to co... |
| 25.06.2020 | Why Health Workers In Sudan Have Been Leaving Their Posts Amid Covid-19 | Volunteer pharmacists work at a small treatment center set up in northern Khartoum on June 18, 2020, ... [+] amid an acute shortage of medicine as Sudan fights to control the spread of Covid-19. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly)AFP via Getty Images |
| 25.06.2020 | How ‘Locker Room Talk’ at a Cookie Company Helped Fuel a Movement Against Toxic Masculinity in the Philippines | When the #MeToo movement exploded onto the collective consciousness of the United States in 2017, it prompted a years-long reckoning—one that’s still ongoing—with the country’s history of pervasive sexism and sexual abuse.
A year later, the... |
| 10.05.2020 | ANALYSIS: The US Covid-19 response has finally shattered the myth of American exceptionalism | Anthony Fauci listens to President Donald Trump speak to reporters following a meeting of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 7.
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Nations around the world have scrambled to respond to t... |
| 03.04.2020 | Washing Hands With Ash, And Other COVID-19 Information From Bangladeshi Community Radio | A month ago, community radio stations in Bangladesh started broadcasting information related to a quickly spreading threat: COVID-19. The amount of this content escalated rapidly: from 25 hours by March 23rd, to 40 hours three days later. |
| 01.07.2019 | Which Countries Have the Strictest Internet Censorship? | The internet’s instant access to information is crucial for education, spreading ideas and activism. This makes it a significant threat to authoritarian governments, leading many countries to strictly censor websites, content, and communica... |
| 24.06.2019 | If China Is A Glimpse Of Our Future Surveillance Nightmare, Maybe Hong Kong Shows How To Fight It | Techdirt has been covering the roll-out of the extraordinarily comprehensive digital surveillance systems in China for many years. It’s hardly news that the Chinese authorities continue to deploy the latest technologies in order to bolster ... |
| 21.12.2018 | Reporting from the other side: Why journalism needs VPNs | Getting news out of hostile territories can potentially be extremely risky, but it is key to making sure that suppressed voices are heard, and that the wider world is aware of what is happening in war zones and regions with unstable leaders... |
| 19.04.2018 | SpaceX, Google, and Microsoft are battling it out to supply the global internet, and here’s why that’s a problem | By Claudio Bozzi, Deakin University
The US Federal Communications Commission last month granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX permission to launch 4,425 satellites that will provide affordable high speed broadband internet to consumers.
The Starlink n... |
| 31.07.2017 | Russia Has Banned VPNs | We’ve noted for some time that Russia has been engaged in a slow but steady assault on privacy tools like VPNs. As with most countries that have an adversarial relationship with the truth, the entire effort has been couched as necessary to ... |
| 07.07.2017 | The Great Firewall Of China Grows Stronger As China Forces App Stores To Remove VPNs | Like clockwork, governments eager to censor the internet inevitably shift their gaze toward tools like VPNs used to get around restrictions. We’ve documented rising efforts to ban the tools use in countries like Russia, where VPN providers ... |
| 16.06.2017 | Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps | Last year we noted how Russia had introduced a new surveillance bill promising to deliver greater security to the country. Of course, like in so many countries, the bill actually did the exact opposite — not only mandating new encryption ba... |
| 07.02.2017 | Ukrainian social media users get five years in prison for ‘supporting separatism’ | A Ukrainian court sentenced two men to five years in prison for “supporting separatism” on the social media website VKontakte on February 6.
The men, both residents of Sloviansk, were arrested by Ukraine’s Security Services in April 2015. T... |
| 26.12.2016 | No Signal: Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app as it continues its cyber crackdown | Farid Y. Farid Contributor
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No Signal: Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app as it continues its cyber crackdown
After a week of blocking the secure... |
| 15.12.2016 | Face-recognition app sparks controversy after it’s reportedly used to track women who appeared in porn films | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A face recognition app called FindFace is sparking controversy in Russia over the destructive power of new technologies with regards to... |
| 15.12.2016 | Face-recognition app sparks controversy after it’s reportedly used to track women who appeared in porn films | A face recognition app called FindFace is sparking controversy in Russia over the destructive power of new technologies with regards to user privacy.
Released in February by Russian app developer Trinity Digital, FindFace helps put names to... |
| 29.11.2016 | Senior Brazilian Court Says 'Right To Be Forgotten' Cannot Be Imposed On Search Engines | Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (STJ), the highest court for non-constitutional questions of federal law, has ruled that the “right to be forgotten” — strictly speaking, the right to be delisted from search results — cannot be imposed up... |
| 29.11.2016 | Cameroonian Government Calls Social Media A 'New Form Of Terrorism' | As Techdirt readers know, there’s a bit of a debate going on currently about the influence that social media exerts on politics and society. If you are still a little undecided as to where you stand on this vexed subject, Cavaye Djibril, Sp... |
| 03.11.2016 | Chinese Police Dub Censorship Circumvention Tools As 'Terrorist Software' | The Great Firewall of China is pretty well-known these days, as is the fact that it is by no means impenetrable. The Chinese authorities aren’t exactly happy about that, and we have seen a variety of attempts to stop its citizens from using... |
| 02.09.2016 | Bhutan's Gross National Unhappiness: In The Wake Of The Country's First Facebook Defamation Lawsuit, Fears Of Censorship Rise | The Kingdom of Bhutan is probably best known for its splendid location in the Himalayas, and for eschewing measurements of Gross Domestic Product in favor of Gross National Happiness. In the one Techdirt story so far about the nation, we al... |
| 23.08.2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
| 09.07.2016 | Nationalized data: New Russian legislation is latest example of emerging data borders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Russia began enforcing a law last year requiring ... |
| 14.06.2016 | Virtual-reality documentary on Ukrainian Chernobyl funded on Kickstarter | A virtual reality documentary about the Ukrainian Chernobyl exclusion zone using 360-degree video technology has been fully funded on Kickstarter. The documentary’s authors received support from over 300 backers to the tune of over 34,000 e... |
| 18.05.2016 | Ukrainian activists leak personal information of 7901 war reporters in Donbas | Earlier this month the Ukrainian activist website Mirotvorets (“Peacemaker”) published a spreadsheet listing what appear to be the names and details of thousands of journalists who have received accreditation to report in the self-proclaime... |
| 28.04.2016 | Russian Prosecutor General accuses ‘Right Sector’ of using social media to stage mass unrest in Russia | In a new report, Russian Prosecutor General, Yuri Chaika, has publicly accused Ukrainian nationalist group ‘Right Sector’ of attempts to use the Internet to stage mass unrest in Russia, in a bid to overthrow the Russian government.
The Pros... |
| 23.03.2016 | Here’s everything that happened at the Internet Freedom Forum, #IFF2016 | I wrote earlier, that I would be attending the 2016 Internet Freedom Forum hosted by PIN (Paradigm Initiative Nigeria), in Abuja on March 8 – 9.
Well, I’ve been back for a minute now, and I have a couple of key insights to share from the co... |
| 03.02.2016 | Thailand Military Government To Pressure Facebook, Line To Censor Content | Katrina Pascual, Tech Times 03 February 2016, 06:02 am
The military government of Thailand will attempt to persuade media firms Facebook and Line to comply with court orders to take down content it deems a threat to peace and order, a senio... |
| 06.01.2016 | This DreamIt startup raised $1.25M and headed back to Singapore | After a short stint colocating with East Falls smart home company BuLogics, DreamIt Ventures graduate IglooHome has left for its hometown of Singapore.
The departure coincides with the startup’s first round of funding: $1.25 million from Lo... |
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| 18.12.2015 | Brazilian Court Freaks Out, Briefly Shuts Down All Of WhatsApp, For Failing To Reveal Info On Users | As you may have heard, earlier this week, a judge in Brazil ordered that WhatsApp, the insanely popular messaging app owned by Facebook should be blocked from all of Brazil for 48 hours, after it refused to reveal some details on some crimi... |
| 13.01.2010 | Haiti earthquake triggers $1.5M in mobile donations, 1,500 Facebook updates a minute | At a time when there are few news organizations with the capital to put reporters on the ground in Haiti, social media is helping to fill the gap with information and financial relief for victims of the earthquake.
More than $1,500,000 has ... |
| 13.01.2010 | Haiti earthquake triggers $1.5M in mobile donations, 1,500 Facebook updates a minute | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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