#IMWeekly: September 23, 2013
In this week's IM Weekly: amendments to Bangladesh's IT Act have activists worried; how Brazil's proposed data law might affect privacy; and more.
In this week's IM Weekly: amendments to Bangladesh's IT Act have activists worried; how Brazil's proposed data law might affect privacy; and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Vietnamese blogger sentenced to 15 years for defamation, Chinese Weibo users want to "un-verify" their accounts in the face of the country's new anti-rumor policy, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: the NSA has broken or circumvented encryption technologies; a new law in Vietnam may prevent most political discussion online.
In this week's #IMWeekly: a crackdown on Internet cafés in Azerbaijan, an Internet blackout in Aleppo, and more.
In this week's #IMWeekly: NSA officials used the agency's surveillance powers to spy on romantic partners; critics challenge Internet.org's mission to bring Internet access to all; and more.
In this week's IM Weekly: Cuban Internet café users must sign pledge not to harm national security before they go online; UK detains the partner of Snowden interviewer Glenn Greenwald; and more.
In this week's IM Weekly: a sex scandal is scrubbed from China's Internet; multiple human rights and media websites suffer DDoS attacks during Zimbabwe's presidential elections.
In this week's IM Weekly: new legislation in Vietnam bans bloggers from discussing mainstream media, Wikipedia will enable native HTTPS for all its projects, and more.
This week in #imweekly: UK anti-porn filters causes several controversies, Russia threatens to block taboo language online, Australia considers educating citizens in geolocation circumvention, web developers claim the U.S. is requiring master encryption keys and a Texas man is charged with operating a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
Tougher Internet filtering policies are being applied throughout Southeast Asia. The Gambia House of Representatives has enacted a new law banning criticism of government officials online. Russia has been pushing new legislation that allows copyright holders to ask courts to block access not only to allegedly pirated content, but also to hyperlinks to such content.