Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch – June 2013
This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch discusses censorship and filtering, surveillance, blogger and netizen arrests and more.
This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch discusses censorship and filtering, surveillance, blogger and netizen arrests and more.
This Social Media CyberWatch outlines privacy law developments, online service provider relationships with the NSA PRISM program, and Facebook privacy news.
The Citizen Lab is pleased to announce the publication of A Call to Harm: New Malware Attacks Against the Syrian Opposition. This research report by Morgan Marquis-Boire and John Scott-Railton examines two recent cyber attacks targeting the Syrian opposition: malware masquerading as the circumvention tool Freegate and a campaign masquerading as a call to arms by a pro-opposition cleric.
The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) hosted the Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) this week to discuss how to foster freedom and openness on the Internet and promote economic and social development.
Citizen Lab Google Policy Fellow Jason Q. Ng is participating in the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) taking place from 14-16 June 2013 at the University of Oxford.
Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Adam Senft and Ron Deibert contribute an article to a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing on Internet Censorship and Controls.
Access the article on SSRN here.
This edition of the Latin America and the Caribbean CyberWatch covers related developments from Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Jamaica, and Chile.
This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch discusses censorship and filtering, surveillance, blogger and netizen arrests and more.
This edition of the Southeast Asia CyberWatch contains news updates from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
On May 13, 2013, Bytes for All (B4A), a Pakistani civil society group and partner in the Cyber Stewards Network, filed a petition with the Lahore High Court on the possible use of the FinFisher product suite in Pakistan. B4A has advocated for the rights of Pakistani netizens to browse the Internet free of censorship and surveillance through numerous court and government actions, including a recent petition submitted in January 2013 in protest of the ongoing censorship of YouTube.