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  1. Alexa
    Resource Type: Website
    Features a database of information about sites that includes statistics, traffic detail pages and related links. Also features tools for Webmasters, and the Alexa Toolbar, which you can install on your computer to contribute to data about Web usage patterns.
  2. Authorities turn their sights on microblogging
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a new crackdown in China on social-networking tools, especially microblogging services.
  3. Canary Watch
    Resource Type: Website
    "Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter. Canarywatch tracks and documents these statements. This site lists warrant canaries we know about, tracks changes or disappearances of canaries, and allows submissions of canaries not listed on the site.
  4. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
    Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
  5. Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
  6. EU: Enact Controls on Digital Weapons Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Unregulated Export of Powerful Surveillance Tools Threatens Internet Freedom. Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch call on the European Union to enact new controls on Internet surveillance and censorship technologies. Repressive governments use these technologies to enable human rights violation.
  7. Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
  8. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
  9. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
    You are the Target!

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
  10. Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
    Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
  11. Spying by the Numbers
    Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
  12. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
  13. We Are Legion
    The Story of the Hacktivists

    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 2012
    A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.

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