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Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS World conferences between 2006 and 2009. ISS world is a surveillance trade show known to industry insiders as ‘The Wiretappers’ Ball’. This project is part of our Big Brother Incorporated investigation into the sale of surveillance technology. Read more…
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ISS World is attended by brutal dictatorships and Western democracies alike. Governments and companies from all over the world meet, mingle, buy and sell – we want to know who’s dealing with who. Many countries publish government spending, which you can use in conjunction with our data and the WikiLeaks Spyfiles to dig around. Take direct action by submitting Freedom of Information requests or writing to your elected representative. A little data goes a long way in this sort of investigation. Join our discussion list to be kept up to date and share your findings.
Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS World conferences between 2006 and 2009. ISS world is a surveillance trade show known to industry insiders as ‘The Wiretappers’ Ball’. This project is part of our Big Brother Incorporated investigation into the sale of surveillance technology. Read more…
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ISS World is attended by brutal dictatorships and Western democracies alike. Governments and companies from all over the world meet, mingle, buy and sell – we want to know who’s dealing with who. Many countries publish government spending, which you can use in conjunction with our data and the WikiLeaks Spyfiles to dig around. Take direct action by submitting Freedom of Information requests or writing to your elected representative. A little data goes a long way in this sort of investigation. Join our discussion list to be kept up to date and share your findings.Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS... more
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The freedom of our internet is at stake, 1984 is here, Big Brother is watching you, tracking your every move, and he is slowly dissolving your connections to uncensored content. Google's actions have prompted me to write a "State of the Internet" address regarding our current Orwellian existence.
In addition to Google's new privacy concerns, this page will seek to document any programs, software, and companies or organizations that help fund, effect, or support censorship and/or tracking on the internet; as well as ways to protect yourself and browse anonymously online. This page will be updated from time to time with no notice.The freedom of our internet is at stake, 1984 is here, Big Brother is watching you,... more
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Google's China threat is a rare show of defiance
China official's comments on Internet control
Comments follow Google's threat to quit China over censorship and hacking
By Chris Buckley
updated 42 minutes ago
BEIJING - A senior Chinese official told companies to support the government's Internet controls on Thursday, suggesting scant room for compromise with Google after the company threatened to quit China over censorship and hacking.
Here are key quotes from Wang Chen, the minister of the State Council Information Office, who did not mention Google in his comments, which appeared on the office's Web site and in state media. The Information Office is a public relations arm of the Chinese government.
Internet worries
"China's Internet is entering an important stage of development, confronting both rare opportunities and severe challenges.""The Internet is bringing massive changes to social life, as well as making life much more convenient for many, but at the same time problems with Internet security are increasingly stark."
Wang said the main security problems on the Internet included "the severe threat to the physical and mental health of minors from Internet pornography." He also listed hacker attacks, and Internet viruses and fraud.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34860637/ns/technology_and_science-security/
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-Joe McDonald and Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writers – Wed Jan 13, 4:07 pm
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Google's threat to end its operations in China over censorship and computer-security concerns could embarrass communist leaders who crave international respect. Yet it appears unlikely that many other companies would follow suit and try to change how business is done in China.
"As long as you aren't involved in politics, the media or pornography, the government will leave you alone," said Siva Yam, president of the United States of America-China Chamber of Commerce, which primarily represents U.S. companies in China.
Such high-tech companies as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. had no comment on Google's announcement Tuesday that it would stop censoring results on its Chinese search engine at Google.cn and might leave the country entirely.
Yahoo Inc. said it was "aligned" with Google's position, though it's not clear what that would mean. Yahoo closed its offices in China several years ago when it sold much of its business there to the Alibaba Group. Yahoo retains a 39 percent stake in Alibaba, and Yahoo spokeswoman Nina Blackwell declined to say whether the company would consider selling its holdings.
Google angered free-speech advocates when it created its China search engine, Google.cn, in 2006 and agreed to exclude links to sites blocked by government filters, popularly known as the Great Firewall of China.
Now Google's decision to confront Beijing might help repair its image.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100113/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_google
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There are a ton of pretenders out there claiming to be another one of those so-called "China experts." Truth is, there's no such thing as a "China expert." If one thing's for certain, the PRC keeps on changing and not even China's hardline leaders know where things might ultimately head. Where better to debunk the "China expert" theory than from atop the country's Great Wall? That's right, Episode #51 comes straight to ya from the Great Wall of China north of Beijing, at the Mutianyu entrance. Enjoy the half-millennium of architectural grandeur as we juice you up with your daily dose on China...*in* China. Thanks again for watching!There are a ton of pretenders out there claiming to be another one of those so-called... more
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The Chinese government has used its unrivalled net censorship apparatus to attack parts of the Tor network ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule, according to activists.
The Tor Project Inc, the non-profit that oversees development of the network, said China's Great Firewall began blocking IP addresses on Friday. The news follows an update last week to blocking technology used by ISPs, known as "Blue Shield".
"We knew this day would come," the Tor Project said.The Chinese government has used its unrivalled net censorship apparatus to attack... more
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The Chinese government have made it mandatory for all PCs in the country to have software installed that screens out "offensive material". Basically they don't want the population knowing about, let alone discussing, such awkward things as the Tienanmen Square massacre.
Unfortunately for the communist government the software only runs on Windows and only filters Internet Explorer! Using Firefox or Opera easily gets around it.
Unfortunately for Chinese computer users, despite this easy workaround, their computers are made more open to malicious hackers due to a security flaw the government software contains.The Chinese government have made it mandatory for all PCs in the country to have... more
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The Chinese Government have decided all new PCs sold in China from July 1st must contain new, auto-updating software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet.
“This is a very bad thing,” said Charles Mok, chairman of the Hong Kong chapter of the Internet Society, an international advisory group on Internet standards. “It’s like downloading spyware onto your computer, but the government is the spy.”
This is not the first time that foreign companies have been enlisted in government efforts to police the Internet. Google already removes politically forbidden results yielded by its popular search engine, Microsoft allows censors to block content on its blog service, and Yahoo was widely criticized for turning over information that was used to jail a journalist.
In recent months China has tightened its Internet restrictions, including an “antivulgarity” campaign that has closed down thousands of pornographic sites but also nonsexual sites, including some of the most popular bulletin boards and blog hosts. China already employs more than 30,000 censors and thousands who “guide public opinion” by flooding bulletin boards with comments favorable to the Communist Party.
Last week, as the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests approached, the government blocked a host of Internet services, including Twitter, Microsoft’s live.com and Flickr, a photo-sharing site, though by Monday evening, these sites had become available again. YouTube has been inaccessible in China outside Hong Kong since March.The Chinese Government have decided all new PCs sold in China from July 1st must... more
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"Internet users in China have been complaining this week that they cannot access Apple’s iTunes Store. The start of the problems coincided with an announcement from an activist group which said that around 40 Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet benefit album that was also carried on iTunes.
The IDG News Service reported Friday that the Amazon.com page for the “Songs for Tibet” album, which includes 20 songs from artists like Sting, Dave Matthews and Moby, could not be reached within China. Michael Wohl, executive director of the Art of Peace Foundation, which produced the album, cited comments on YouTube which said a video promoting the album might also be inaccessible in China.
Mr. Wohl said that while he had no proof, it appeared that the Chinese government had blocked iTunes and the Amazon and YouTube links using the “Great Firewall of China,” as the government’s Internet control mechanisms are known. Expatriate iTunes users in China also concluded on Apple’s customer service forums that the government was blocking the site. "
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