Internet tax and protests in Hungary; the ‘hybrid’ Net Neutrality plan under consideration at the FCC; the Intercept publishes manual for spyware sold to governments; research group finds sophisticated Chinese cyberespionage group; and FBI’s fake news story, all in this week’s IMWeekly.
China caught spying on iCloud users days after iPhone 6 release, Russia begins thinking about autonomous internet and more in this week's #IMWeekly!
Google has lifted restrictions preventing Internet users in Cuba from downloading the Chrome browser; fewer than half of Russians have heard about the country's new blogger law; and more, in this week's IM Weekly.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Malaysia mulls a Facebook ban, Ukraine’s legislature advances a bill that would curb media and Internet freedom, and Thailand’s junta bans a video game that strikes a little too close to home.
Last August, a French woman named Caroline Doudet went out to eat in the chic French Riviera town of Cap-Ferret. She had a bad time: the waitstaff was rude, they forgot to bring her her drink, the food wasn’t very good. Then she wrote about it on her blog, and that is when the trouble started.
Russia is continuing a recent crackdown on online communications, passing a series of new laws and amendments that target web platforms and their users.
In this week's #IMWeekly: Australia announces a controversial surveillance bill, Iraqi netizens find a way around internet blockages, and Russia targets extremism on Twitter.
In this week's #IMWeekly: new leaks reveal NSA collection of phone data even broader than previously thought, Iran arrests cyberactivists despite reform promises, Huawei to take its business elsewhere than US, and more!
In this week's #IMWeekly: a new US surveillance reform bill, hacktivism in Singapore, and more.