The OpenNet Initiative is holding its first-ever conference on May 18 in Oxford, England, at the Oxford Internet Institute. The conference is free and open to the public, but you must register and the event is capped at 100 participants. You can register on this wiki. We will be sharing the initial results of our … Read more
This press release is actually big news. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Vodafone have been working very hard — alongside academics and NGOs — to produce a set of common principles guiding company behavior when faced with laws, regulations and policies that interfere with the achievement of human rights. There is an enormous amount of work … Read more
Congratulations to Professor Ron Deibert (a/k/a “profd”) and his entire Citizen Lab team on today’s release of their new application, psiphon. The festivities here in Toronto include lectures at noon, as part of Protect the Net – Toronto, and then the world-wide release of the application from 3 – 7 p.m., all at the Munk … Read more
We’ve just gathered a key subset of our global team of ONI researchers to review the filtering data we’ve gathered from around the world. WIRED’s Mark Anderson sat in on part of the meetings and has a sneak peek. We’ll have a book out on this topic come Springtime.
In partnership with the OpenNet Initiative (particularly Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and the fabulous Citizen Lab crew), Richard Rogers and Govcom have developed a cool visual of how online censorship works in Iran. The net result of a link analysis the team performed was the identification of 30 sites found to be blocked that we … Read more
Our OpenNet Initiative partners at the Citizen Lab of the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto have created a new way to view censorship online: an updated interactive map. This new visualization tool is a central aspect of Amnesty International’s recently-launched campaign against online censorship called Irrepressible.info. CBC reports, as does BBC. (Bravo to … Read more
At the Berkman Center, we don’t work on making tools that allow the circumvention of the Internet filtering that we study (along with collaborators at the University of Cambridge, Oxford Internet Institute, and the University of Toronto). But our partners at the University of Toronto do. Much anticipated: the announcement of Psiphon. Here’s the new … Read more
The OpenNet Initiative has released its first Internet Watch report, which demonstrates the disruption to dissident Internet sites during the recent Belarus elections. (The NYT covered the story in brief.) The Internet has an increasing impact on politics, and many regimes that are not so keen on that impact have been taking notice.
A breaking report from on the ground in Tunisia on the filtering topic at the World Summit on the Information Society: the Expression under Repression session and a phalanx of secret police who showed up. In case you missed it, here is the freshly-released, extensive ONI report on Internet filtering in Tunisia. The short form … Read more