Tag: Open Net Initiative
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✴︎ blogToronto Hactivists Benefit From Grant for Internet Censorship Work
There is a news item today in the CBC news about the grant to the OpenNet Initiative from the MacArthur Foundation. The grant is going to our ONI partners, the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society atHarvard Law School to fund the core ONI activities over the next several years. We are all very excited…
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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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✴︎ blogUniversities to Study Net Censorship, Surveillance
Published in The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by Andrew Mayeda A University of Toronto research lab and its partners have landed $3 million U.S. to study Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. The money will go to the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project among Harvard Law School, Cambridge and Oxford universities, and University of…
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✴︎ blogMedia Coverage of Citizen Lab and OpenNet Initiative at WSIS/Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative’s Tunisia Report generated considerable coverage, a lot of which features The Citizen Lab’s very own Director of Technical Research, Nart Villeneuve. Nart compiled the list below for archival purposes. BBC – Controversy dogs UN net gathering (pdf) BBC – Tunisia slated over net controls (pdf) BBC – Hungry for net freedom in…
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✴︎ blogNews coverage of our Tunisia Report…
Our report on Tunisia’s Internet filtering regime is picking up some news coverage. The Associated Press has a piece in wide circulation, and here is a great BBC story featuring ONI researchers Derek Bambauer and Nart Villeneuve. It appears that the spotlight on Tunisia’s filtering regime is taking center stage at WSIS. Hopefully the debates…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative has released our report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia. The press release can be found here. Here is the blurb: Drawing on open sources and a detailed year-long technical investigation, ONI research describes Tunisia’s aggressive targeting and blocking of on-line content, including political opposition Web sites, human rights groups, and sites that…
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✴︎ blog6th Annual Privacy and Security Conference
I gave a presentation last night to the 6th Annual Privacy and Security Conference on the work of the OpenNet Initiative.
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✴︎ blogFuture Tense Radio Interview on ONI Report on Burma
I did an interview with Jon Gordon of American Public Radio’s Future Tense, which you can listen to here in real audio, on the ONI’s Burma Report.
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✴︎ blogMore coverage and fallout of our Burma Report
There has been considerable news coverage and controversy around the release of the ONI’s Internet Filtering in Burma Report. Here is an Information Week article that is not just a reproduction of the Associated Press story. And Nart did up a nice little piece on his blog about Fortinet’s tangled web.
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✴︎ blogNY Times on Burma, and Toronto Star on ICANN
Some news reports today. The first is from the NY Times and it covers the ONI’s report on Burma. Now reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. The second is a Toronto Star article on some of the controversies surrounding reform of ICANN.