Tag: google
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✴︎ blogCNN China Spat with Google won’t affect relations with U.S.
Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre, which studies the intersection of digital policy and human rights, said Google’s move didn’t come as a surprise. “It’s become unsustainable for Google to operate in this environment,” he said. “They’ve made a decision that the risks are too great for…
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✴︎ blogGoogle gripe shows Ottawa’s cybersecurity ‘vacuum’
Published in CTV News “The Google attacks were taken extremely seriously — more than just an incident of potential industrial espionage but a major body blow to the American political system,” said Ronald Deibert, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Toronto.. original article here
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✴︎ blogGoogle, China, and the coming threat from cyberspace
Published in the Christian Science Monitor By Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Cyberspace attacks are set to increase. Here’s why – and here’s what we can do to stop them. The recent cyberespionage attacks on Google and that company’s subsequent announcement that it would reconsider its search engine services in China gripped the world’s focus…
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✴︎ blogNY Times Room For Debate – Can Google Beat China
More Than a Tech Problem For years, innovative solutions to sidestep Internet filters have plagued Internet censors. Rebellious kids, hoping to sneak a peek around parental controls, have come up with some of the best of these ideas. Others are highly sophisticated open-source systems tended to by brainy PhD.’s and caffeine-fueled programmers.
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✴︎ blogGoogle, China and a wake-up call to protect the Net (Globe and Mail comment)
By Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Action is needed at the global level to ensure that cyberspace doesn’t slip into a new dark age Google’s announcement that it had been hit by cyberattacks from China and that it’s reconsidering its services in that country has smacked the world like a thunderclap: Why the drastic…
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✴︎ blogGoogle Fallout
Google’s New Approach There has been quite a lot of coverage of Google’s statement concerning the attacks it experienced and its reconsideration of its service offerings in China. Google made reference to our Ghostnet investigation, and felt that there might be a direct connection between the two. At this point, and with the evidence…
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✴︎ blogPolicy@Google Tech Talk December 8th
I recently gave a Policy@Google Talk on December 8th 2009 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The talk was an overview of Internet censorship patterns worldwide, with a focus on the work of the OpenNet Initiative and some references to challenges around circumvention technologies. Google’s Free Expression point person, Bob Boorstin introduces….
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✴︎ blogChina Google Search Compare
In an effort to tailor its services to the requirements of China’s Internet filtering regime, Google announced last week that it had created a special version of its search engine for the China market, Google.cn. Our OpenNet Initiative team put together a neat little search comparison tool that you can access here that allows you…
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✴︎ blogWeekly Standard Coverage of the ONI
Weekly Standard has a nice little article on our most recent bulletins on China. It looks like we’re helping to put a bit of pressure on Google to live up to their own highly publicized ethical standards. They just released this in response to our colleagues at DIT discovering that Google news searches in China…