Access Express | 03/01/13
AT&T wins the Network Interference Award
After announcing its support for the American cybersecurity bill CISPA, AT&T won the Network Interference Award by nearly a quarter of the vote. Click here to read more!
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Staff Picks
Selling spyware to trap dissidents
Martin Münch lives in a Disney movie. He knows who the bad guys are. And he knows he’s one of the good guys. There’s only one hitch: everyone else doesn't know that. On the contrary: to them, Münch is on the wrong side of the Arab Spring...
via presseurop
The future of the internet may lie in the past. And that's not a good thing. Read the Access op-ed in Foreign Policy on how governments, to stifle political dissent and in the name of defending national security, are putting up borders on the internet...
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From the Access Community
Chile takes blogger to court over Twitter parody account
Blogger and lawyer Rodrigo Ferrari was formally charged by prosecutors for a Twitter account that parodied a powerful and wealthy Chilean family...
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Microsoft inherits sticky data collection issues from Skype
In a letter sent in January, the group of digital rights organizations asked Microsoft to disclose what data it collected from Skype users and whether that data was passed on to potential advertisers or to law enforcement agencies conducting criminal...
via nytimes
India's spies want data on every BlackBerry customer worldwide
There are about 79 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide—and India’s government wants to hand its spy agency data on every one of them...
via slate
Could Google's push for digital privacy changes affect law enforcement?
Whenever a new technology emerges that could help police officers or public safety workers do their job more effectively, it's almost inevitable that privacy concerns will arise. And Google, being at the forefront of Internet and technology privacy...
via govtech
Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills
Most Mexican journalists and bloggers reporting on highly sensitive topics (such as crime, corruption, violence and human rights issues) do not fully understand the risks and threats they face when they use digital and mobile technology...
via ijnet
CISPA is back: FAQ on what it is and why it's still dangerous
The privacy-invasive bill known as CISPA—the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—was reintroduced in February 2013. EFF has compiled an FAQ detailing how the bill's major provisions work and how they endanger all Internet users' privacy...
via eff
In South Korea, activists say transparency must catch up to technology
South Korea is one of the most networked societies in the world, yet its civilian government is barely 20 years old and watchdogs complain the current president's administration is clamping down on press freedom to keep up appearances at the cost of...
via techpresident
Privacy under siege: Unprecedented lobby efforts against the Data Protection Regulation are revealed
As the European Parliament debates new data protection reforms, US technology companies have arrived in Brussels to commence an unprecedented lobbying effort aimed at preventing strong regulation...
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Stuxnet missing link found, resolves some mysteries around the cyberweapon
A new variant of the sophisticated cyberweapon known as Stuxnet has been uncovered by researchers and may have been released in 2007, two years earlier than previously uncovered versions of the code...
via wired
Six Strikes copyright enforcement system launches, will throttle your bandwidth for pirating shows.
For months, American BitTorrent users have no doubt been dreading this day. The new “Copyright Alert System” is finally launching across all of the major Internet providers—which could result in your bandwidth getting throttled...
via slate
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