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Battles for democracy. Week 28
The NSA merely pursues total population control. Turkey is trying to block Twitter…again. TPP will put an end to free expression online. UK might dodge Europe’s top court ruling reinstating and expanding its spying powers. Citizens abused or killed, liberties…
Battles for democracy. Week 25
Social media mass surveillance is permitted by law, says top UK official. The NSA is more active in Germany and Denmark than anywhere else in Europe. Facebook said they will never use your browsing and app history to show you…
Battles for Democracy. Week 23
This week citizens are counter-attacking harder than usual. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between Europe and the United States leaked. Battles for Democracy in the Arab World and much more. Citizens abused or killed, liberties and rights cut…
Battles for Democracy. Week 23.
Reset The Net initiative is pushing the use of encryption to new levels; German and British spy stations discovered; Egypt will acquire a brand new system for mass surveillance. Citizens abused or killed, liberties and rights cut Above-top-secret details of…
Battles for Democracy. Week 22.
Encryption tool endorsed by Snowden abruptly shuts down; UK government threatened with shutting down the Guardian if files from the Snowden case were not destroyed; Europe on the verge of destroying online comments and free speech; Calls for social media…
Battles for Democracy. Week 21
The copyright monopoly cannot be enforced without mass surveillance. We’d better reinvent banking or remove it altogether. 152 out of 736 Members of European Parliament have other earnings apart from their salary. Credit Suisse will pay $2.6 billion for helping…
Battles for Democracy. Week 20
European Commission are following the agenda of those with money; possible abuses of ‘the right to be forgotten’ ; FCC votes to kill Net Neutrality; 281 persons protesting against austerity and TTIP were violently arrested (including Belgian and European parliamentarians and…
Battles for Democracy. Week 19
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy. “We kill people based on metadata” confirms Michael Hayden ex-director for NSA; Corporations guilty of ethical, financial or environmental misconduct give advice to the comission; Crackdown intensifies ahead of Tiananmen anniversary; 30.000…
Battles for Democracy. Week 18
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy: New models of internet censorship are being piloted and perfected; What monitoring centers are procuring governments ; Norwegian Intelligence Service acquires a supercomputer to crack heavy cryptography; UK government offers school pupil…
Battles for Democracy. Weeks 16-17
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy: Hidden rules within the EU-US trade deal; Tibetan man on fire (the 130th) to protest against Chinese oppression; Repression, censorship, disappearances and impunity in Mexico; Financial data of UK taxpayers could be…
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