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  1. As ACTA talks resume, new leak confirms fears about threat to online free expression
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders urges ACTA negotiators not to sacrifice Internet free speech and access to online information to the desire to combat piracy and the counterfeiting of copyrighted works
  2. 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.
  3. Dark Market
    Cybethieves, Cybercops and You

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Investigative research into a hackers' cybermarket where cyberthieves exchange tricks and tips. The author finds the individuals who founded the site and also tackles the problem of policing these crimes which are undertaken across so many jurisdictions the thieves are virtually impossible to prosecute.
  4. easyDNS Technologies Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. EFF Battles Abuse of Site-Blocking Court Orders
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in an emergency hearing and a written filing this week to block the recording industry's move to force Internet infrastructure companies into becoming copyright police with far-reaching
  6. Germany: Are online user comments protected by press freedom laws?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A local newspaper in the western German city of Darmstadt is at the centre of a legal case that will measure whether readers’ comments are protected by Germany’s press freedom laws.
  7. IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from Google
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
  8. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  9. The Internet is Already Broken
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
  10. Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Privacy and freedom of expression are fundamental rights of equal value. Whenever one conflicts with the other, a balance must be reached under a judge’s authority because, as a matter of principle, one cannot be given more importance than the other.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Whistle blower site RCILeaks.Org wins Icelandic free-speech court battle against Canadian immigrant investor firm
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Irreverent Canadian corporate whistleblower site RCILeaks.Org, and its Icelandic internet service provider OrangeWebsite.com, have won a landmark free speech court battle in the Reykjavik District Court.
  14. The WikiLeaks wake up call
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Will a backlash against the WikiLeaks phenomenon have significant implications for the future of the Internet?

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