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Posted on 06/05/2013 From Electronic Frontier Foundation
Los Angeles Police Department and County Sheriff’s Department Must Release Data Under California Public Records Act
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU-SC) today jointly filed suit against two Los Angeles-area law-enforcement agencies over their failure to produce records related to the use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs).
Mounted on squad cars and telephone poles, these sophisticated...
Posted on 06/05/2013 From The Citizen Lab
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CENSORSHIP AND FILTERING
TUNISIA: Interior Minister calls for new Internet monitoring body
Tunisian Minister of the Interior Lotfi Ben Jeddou has proposed that Tunisia establish an Internet monitoring body to investigate cybercrime and other Internet violations in coordination with the Tunisian...
Posted on 06/05/2013 From Michael Geist
Last week the University of Ottawa Press published The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law,
an effort by many of Canada's leading copyright scholars to begin the
process of examining the long-term implications of the copyright
pentalogy. The book is available for purchase and is also available as a
free download under a Creative Commons licence. The book can be downloaded in its entirety or each of the 14 chapters can be...
Posted on 04/05/2013 From Global Voices Advocacy
For a primer on the TPP agreement, see this recent post by our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a free trade treaty that looks to integrate the economies and markets of the Asia-Pacific region, goes beyond commercial matters to include aspects such as protection of investments and intellectual property.
This agreement, better known as the TPP, will have its seventeenth round of negotiations from May 15-24 in Lima, Peru.
The first wave of...
Posted on 04/05/2013 From Global Voices Advocacy
The post was co-authored by Oiwan Lam and Leila Nachawati.
The general election campaign period in Malaysia has triggered what independent news site MalaysiaKini is calling “China-style censorship.” Over the last two weeks, at least two news sites, Harakah Daily and MalaysiaKini, have suffered from DDoS attacks and connection disruption at the ISP level. MalaysiaKini reports that its Twitter accounts have been hacked and pages on its video site, KiniTV, are being blocked by certain ISPs.
On May...
Posted on 03/05/2013 From The Citizen Lab
This post is written by Citizen Lab Visiting Fellow Luis Horacio Najera on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2013.
Journalism and news services are among the most radically and rapidly transformed industries since the invention of the Internet. In 1989, when I started my career as a reporter in Northern Mexico, we had no email, no laptops, no Skype, or social media identities. Traveling outside of the city for special assignments was an adventure that included making collect calls...
Posted on 03/05/2013 From Global Voices Advocacy
This post originally appeared on the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It has been modified for the Global Voices Advocacy audience.
On May 1, the Ethiopian Supreme Court upheld the conviction and extreme sentence of award-winning online journalist Eskinder Nega, who now faces 18 years in prison. Nega was arrested in September 2011 and charged with “terrorism” under a vague law in Ethiopia that has been used to target online journalists and political dissenters. His trial and...
Posted on 03/05/2013 From The Citizen Lab
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Brazilian court ranks highest in requests for censorship
According to the latest Google Transparency Report, which breaks down the traffic, content removal and data requests for the period of July-December 2012, Brazil is the country with the highest number of court ordered content removal requests. Google received 640 requests from Brazilian courts...
Posted on 03/05/2013 From APC
MONTREAL
3 May 2013
(MK for APCNews)
“Who controls the web? On whose behalf? How free are we really to access content?” These are questions that are being asked and answered by a global, crowd-sourced film project. Instituto Nupef, APC member in Brazil, has launched a collaborative documentary film project.
Posted on 03/05/2013 From Electronic Frontier Foundation
Twenty years ago today, the United Nations (UN) established World Press Freedom Day to raise awareness of press freedom and remind governments of their duties under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year’s official celebration, sponsored by the UN, highlights what EFF has known for a long time: that free expression is an imperative for all media, from online newspapers to blogs to sites like Twitter and Facebook.
As the Eskinder Nega case demonstrates, the lines...