links - it and human rights

freedom

• BroadBand Politics http://broadbandpolitics.com "On the theory and practice of networking" "This blog is all about the innerwebs" Richard Bennett : 2009
• Richard Bennett Blog http://bennett.com/blog/ Blog about Internet and society - abuse, privacy, etc. Richard Bennett : 2009
• The internet is God's present to China http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=24558&t=1&c=4 On the one hand, the internet is a tool to make money. On the other, the Communist dictatorship is afraid of freedom of expression. ... The internet has brought about the awakening of ideas among the Chinese. Liu Xiaobo : 28 April 2009

google

• Google Blogscoped http://blog.outer-court.com/ "covering Google, search engines and web technology, and other related (and sometimes unrelated) topics." Philipp Lensen : 2006
• Undermining Freedom of Expression in China: The role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google. http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-20-n20.html Excerpts and summary of the Amnesty PDF document, with links and comments Amnesty : July 2006

hr sites

• Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org.uk/ "Working to protect human rights worldwide" Amnesty Intl : 2006
• Amnesty International Library http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex "The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. " Amnesty Intl : 2006
• Center for Democracy and Technology http://www.cdt.org/ "Working for democratic values and constitional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media." CDT : 2006
• Citizen Lab http://www.citizenlab.org/ "An interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics." Citizen Lab : 2006
• CiviBlog http://www.civiblog.org/ "An international initiative with the aim of giving voice to individuals and organizations involved in global civil society. We provide platforms and resources for NGOs, activists, dissidents and individuals at risk through the medium of blogging." CiviBlog : 2006
• Enough Project http://www.enoughproject.org Against genocide. enoughproject : 2007
• Global Voices Online http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/ "the hub for an international community of bloggers who want to communicate with the broader world. Its main components are a blog, wiki, and aggregator of international blogs." ... "lives on a server run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society" ... "we seek to enable everyone who wants to speak to have the means to speak — and everyone who wants to hear that speech, the means to listen to it." blog : 2006
• Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/29/0223253&from=rss "The sad state of affairs is that Big Brother probably became a quiet part of our lives a lot earlier. The big question now is: how much worse can it get?" ask.slashdot : 2006
• Personal Freedom and the Internet http://sankey.ws/internet.html "... remember where we all began [when the internet was built] - with egomaniacs who were determined to dominate the entire world or destroy it if they couldn't. ('We shall never capitulate, no, never. We may be destroyed but if we are, we shall drag a world with us, a world in flames.' Adolf Hitler, the democratically selected chancellor of Germany, 1934.) So, if you don't like the ability of people to send you untraceable junk mail on today's Internet (and I'm sure you don't!), remember the alternatives we faced. Those alternatives will pop up tomorrow if we ever decide that freedom isn't worth the hassle." John Sankey : 2006

privacy

• AT&T Rewrites Privacy Policy http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/21/1718219 "explicitly stating that the customer's data belongs to the company" Discussion of privacy slashdot : june 2006
• Comments on "Defeating Google's Perpetual Search Logging" http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/12/1610253&from=rss Comment on article at freenet.org; discussion of ways. SlashDot : 2006
• Gmail and privacy, at EFF http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html FAQ about Gmail and its invasion of privacy EFF : 2004
• Gmail and privacy, from Google http://mail.google.com/mail/help/more.html "Google takes privacy very seriously." Uh huh. Google : 2006
• Google search for gmail and privacy http://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+privacy finds good info : 2006
• Government intrusion discussion http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1728215&from=rss "Big Brother wants to monitor VOIP." "I think the Declaration of Independence strongly hinted that the founding fathers were aware government is an endless cycle of foundation -> golden age -> decline -> dark age. That whole bit about 'whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it" slashdot : july 2006
• Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/0119253 "And how long until their regular check-in procedure for whether or not your computer is running legal copies of software morphs into a marketing opportunity by linking your ip address to your windows registration for tracking purposes? It would be the ultimate cookie, since it could essentially link every Windows user on the internet to the purchaser of the windows license, no matter where the computer moves to. Companies would leap all over this database in backroom deals, since it could allow advertisers or other companies to know the full identity of users the moment they bring up a page." slashdot : 07 june 2006
• privacy at wired.com http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/ Wired : 2006
• Protect Your Privacy from Google http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/google-privacy.html Using FireFox and FoxyProxy, all requests for google.com go through Tor anonymizing proxy FreeNet : 2006

purchases

• Learning to live with big brother http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9867324 The second article in our series looks at the new technologies for collecting personal information, and the dangers of abuse. It used to be easy to tell whether you were in a free country or a dictatorship. In an old-time police state, the goons are everywhere, both in person and through a web of informers that penetrates every workplace, community and family. ... These days, data about peoples whereabouts privacy : stored and shared on a scale that no dictator of the old school ever thought possible. ...'

spying

• Vast spy system loots computers in 103 countries http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/29spy.html?_r=2&hp " ... has infiltrated computers and stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded. ... the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, ... It can turn on the camera and audio-recording functions of an infected computer, enabling monitors to see and hear what goes on in a room. John Markoff, NY Times : march 2009

torture

• Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of Americas war on terror' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1970086,00.html

  "In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront."

  "If we were to judge the US by its penal policies, we would perceive a strange beast: a Christian society that believes in neither forgiveness nor redemption."

  "President Bush maintains that he is fighting a war against threats to the "values of civilised nations": terror, cruelty, barbarism and extremism. He asked his nations interrogators to discover where these evils are hidden. They should congratulate themselves. They appear to have succeeded."

  www.monbiot.com' George Monbiot : 12 December 2006