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Indonesia wants to control data from foreign companies – archived source #2

Indonesia blocks Yahoo, Paypal, gaming websites over licence breaches August 1, 2022 – Reuters JAKARTA, July 30 (Reuters) – Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm PayPal (PYPL.O) and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules, an official said on Saturday, sparking a backlash on social media. Registration is required under […]
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TikTok downplays it’s association with China – archived source

Inside TikTok’s Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’ Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn’t. By Chris Stokel-Walker – 7/27/22 6:00AM Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal how the company games out responses to tricky questions — and highlight what the company thinks its biggest public perception problems are. Chief among […]
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Indonesia wants to control data from foreign companies – archived source #1

Indonesia urges tech platforms to sign up to new licensing rules or risk being blocked July 18, 2022 – By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA, July 18 (Reuters) – Indonesia urged tech companies on Monday to register under new licensing rules, or run the risk of having their platforms blocked, with data showing many big tech firms […]
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Thailand used Pegasus spyware against pro-democracy movement – archived source

GeckoSpy Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement By John Scott-Railton1, Bill Marczak1, Irene Poetranto1, Bahr Abdul Razzak1, Sutawan Chanprasert2, and Ron Deibert1 July 17, 2022 Key Findings We discovered an extensive espionage campaign targeting Thai pro-democracy protesters, and activists calling for reforms to the monarchy. We forensically confirmed that at least 30 individuals were infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. […]
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Iran manipulates internet with DNS hijacking – archived source (translated)

Limitations on Google output; A test for more Internet restrictions in Iran Author: Shadi Khaskar Tuesday, July 21, 1401 at 16:00 (July 12, 2022) While the plan to protect the rights of users has not passed its full procedure in the parliament and has not become a law, Internet users in Iran face new and […]
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Iran manipulates internet with DNS hijacking – archived source

محدودیت در خروجی گوگل؛ آزمایشی برای محدودیت‌های بیشتر اینترنت در ایران نویسنده: شادی خوش‌کار سه شنبه, ۲۱ تیر ۱۴۰۱ ساعت ۱۶:۰۰ درحالی‌که طرح صیانت از حقوق کاربران روال کامل خود را در مجلس نگذرانده و تبدیل به قانون نشده، کاربران اینترنت در ایران هر روز با محدودیت‌های تازه‌ و پیچیده‌تر روبه‌رو می‌شوند. امروز در شبکه‌های اجتماعی، […]
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China censors all social media posts – archived source

Now China wants to censor online comments A draft update of rules would dramatically increase the power of China’s censorship machine, but platforms will pay the price. By Zeyi Yang – June 18, 2022 China is fine-tuning its censorship machine, this time proposing changes in how to regulate the billions of online comments posted in the […]
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India police used malware to place false evidence on activist computers – archived source

Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists ANDY GREENBERG – JUN 16, 2022 7:00 AM New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims’ computers that led to their arrest. POLICE FORCES AROUND the world have increasingly used hacking tools to identify and track protesters, expose political dissidents’ secrets, […]
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Vodafone plans carrier-level user tracking for targeted ads – archived source

Vodafone plans carrier-level user tracking for targeted ads By Bill Toulas – May 30, 2022 04:00 PM Vodafone is piloting a new advertising ID system called TrustPid, which will work as a persistent user tracker at the mobile Internet Service Provider (ISP) level. The new system is in test phase in Germany and is intended to be impossible […]
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Amazon worker chat app censors certain words – archived source

LEAKED: NEW AMAZON WORKER CHAT APP WOULD BAN WORDS LIKE “UNION,” “RESTROOMS,” “PAY RAISE,” AND “PLANTATION” Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others. Ken Klippenstein – April 4 2022, 9:27 p.m. AMAZON WILL BLOCK and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal […]
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