The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship, released today, documents the practice of Internet censorship around the world through empirical testing in 45 countries of the availability of 2,046 of the world’s most-trafficked and influential websites, plus additional country-specific websites. The study finds evidence of filtering in 26 countries across four broad content themes: political, social, topics related to conflict and security, and Internet tools (a term that includes censorship circumvention tools as well as social media platforms). The majority of countries that censor content do so across all four themes, although the depth of the filtering varies.
There's a lot on our docket! This week Internet Monitor reviews China's latest predictive policing software, Google's ongoing policy changes in the European Union, Twitter's latest transparency report (featuring an increasingly restrictive Russia), the South Korean Go player defeated by a Google AI machine, and a statement made by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights about the FBI/Apple standoff.
This week, Internet Monitor looks at China's draft cybersecurity law, reports of Samsung and Google blocking LGBT apps in South Korea, the United Arab Emirates' decision to deport an Australian Facebook user, and the recent seizure of Darkode.
New Russian system to monitor social media and predict political protests; radio and Internet under attack in Burundi; South Korea mandates spyware on teens' phones; and more, in our Week in Review.
This week's #IMweekly contains news on cyberattacks in Korea, prosecution of a teen over Twitter use in Bahrain, and troubling legislation in Taiwan and Ecuador.