Only one day before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games begin….and we’re not the only ones to notice. The Chinese government has spread a stifling net of surveillance around the capital to allegedly ensure that the Olympics remain “safe”. This comes as...

Since the Senate approved the new FISA bill, the blogosphere has been in a state of upheaval, declaring it an infringement on the Bill of Rights. NPR recently reported that liberal and conservative bloggers have joined forces to...

As spite spurs activism among the nation’s youth, Egypt contemplates banning Facebook- the infamous Social Networking Site (SNS) that has taken the country by storm. The rising food prices and consequential rise in cost of living in Egypt has caused a great...

After weeks of tumultuous protests inspired largely by South Korea’s young netizens, this country, one of the most wired and technology savvy in the world, is considering new ways to monitor the Internet. In April, South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak’s decision...

Research on surveillance has been of growing importance. Here is some information we have compiled: Content around the site related to surveillance ...

In recent weeks, there has been considerable press coverage of Webwise, an application designed by Phorm to track Web browsing behavior by ISP users and then target advertising at those users based on the sites that they visit. The coverage followed...

In addition to blocking blogs and arresting bloggers, a new form of censorship has started to emerge in the Middle East and North Africa: blog-hosting services removing blogs from their servers. Arab bloggers complain that the major blog-hosting services, Maktoob Blog and...

According to Ed Giorgio, who is working with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell on a proposed cyber-security plan, "privacy and security are a zero-sum game." (Quoted from The Spymaster, a story about McConnell in the Jan. 21, 2008 New Yorker; story not...

At the end of last year, Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse (EPIC) released a report entitled "Leading Surveillance Societies in the EU and the World 2007". This report assesses the state of privacy in every EU...

For better or worse, surveillance is increasingly a part of modern life. Is it effective to continue to protest this increase, and to argue for a different tradeoff between security concerns and privacy or civil liberties? Or is it better to find...