UN report: "three strikes" Internet laws violate human rights China's not the only Internet bad boy; a new UN report (PDF) calls out even developed democracies for slapping restrictions on the Internet. An official appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a new report on the state of online free speech around the world. In addition to calling attention to long-standing censorship problems in China, Iran, and other oppressive regimes, the report devotes a surprising amount of attention to speech restrictions in the developed world—and it singles out recently enacted "three strikes" laws in France and the United Kingdom that boot users off the Internet for repeated copyright infringement. Dragging ISPs into the fight The report was written by Frank La Rue, whose official title is "Special Rapporteur." Governments of all kinds are compelling ISPs and website operators to help with their censorship efforts. Obviously, this has big implications for the contemporary copyright debate. Strikeout
FAQ – Government requests directed to Google and YouTube What is a content removal request? Governments make content removal requests to remove information from Google products, such as blog posts or YouTube videos. The data includes court orders sent to us to remove content, regardless of whether the court order is directed at Google. For purposes of this Report, we also count government requests that we review particular content to determine if it should be removed for violating a product's community guidelines or content policies. Is this data comprehensive? There are limits to what this data can tell us. Do your statistics cover all categories of content removals? No. How many of these requests resulted in the removal of content? The "removal request" numbers represent the number of requests we have received per country; the percentage of requests in response to which we removed content; and the number of individual items of content requested to be removed. How is removal different from blocking services? Yes.
Photos of the World Traffic – Google Transparency Report Пользователи из более чем 30 стран не могли получить доступ к продуктам и сервисам Google. Такие перерывы в работе могут быть вызваны разными причинами: от системных сбоев до блокирования по распоряжению государственных органов. Все текущие и зарегистрированные сбои приведены ниже. Список не является исчерпывающим. YouTube С 13 июня 2014 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 51 день Все продукты С 31 мая 2014 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 63 дня Сайты Google С 11 октября 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1756 дней Google Sites inaccessible. YouTube С 23 марта 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1959 дней Сайты Google С 7 апреля 2014 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 118 дней Google Sites partially accessible YouTube С 13 июня 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1877 дней YouTube С 17 сентября 2012 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 685 дней Сайты Google С 24 июня 2009 г. по настоящее время Продолжительность: 1866 дней
FluTrends Skip to content Thank you for stopping by. Google Flu Trends and Google Dengue Trends are no longer publishing current estimates of Flu and Dengue fever based on search patterns. The historic estimates produced by Google Flu Trends and Google Dengue Trends are available below. It is still early days for nowcasting and similar tools for understanding the spread of diseases like flu and dengue – we're excited to see what comes next. Sincerely, The Google Flu and Dengue Trends Team. Google Flu Trends Data: You can also see this data in Public Data Explorer Flu Trends model updates for the United States The model was launched in 2008 and updated in 2009, 2013, and 2014. Google Dengue Trends data Online censorship hurts us all | Technology Artists have lots of problems. We get plagiarised, ripped off by publishers, savaged by critics, counterfeited — and we even get our works copied by "pirates" who give our stuff away for free online. But no matter how bad these problems get, they're a distant second to the gravest, most terrifying problem an artist can face: censorship. It's one thing to be denied your credit or compensation, but it's another thing entirely to have your work suppressed, burned or banned. You'd never know it, however, judging from the state of the law surrounding the creation and use of internet publishing tools. Since 1995, every single legislative initiative on this subject in the UK's parliament, the European parliament and the US Congress has focused on making it easier to suppress "illegitimate" material online. And that's the rub. Take the US's 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which has equivalents in every European state that has implemented the 2001 European Union Copyright Directive.
Demandes de suppression de contenu protégé par des droits d'auteur – Google Transparency Report Qu'est-ce qui est inclus ? Qu'est-ce qui ne l'est pas ? Les données ci-dessous correspondent aux demandes de suppression de liens pour cause de violation de droits d'auteur que nous avons reçues par le biais de notre formulaire Web pour l'application Recherche Google. Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers Tell Congress to Kill COICA 2.0, the Internet Censorship Bill UPDATE: Great news. We don't always see eye-to-eye with Google, but we're on the same team this time. "If there is a law that requires DNSs, to do X and it's passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president of the United States and we disagree with it then we would still fight it," he said, according to the report. Big content is irate. ORIGINAL: We knew that members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill -- which more than 325,000 Demand Progress members helped block last winter -- but we never expected it to be this atrocious. Senators Leahy and Hatch pretended to weigh free speech concerns as they revised the bill. Will you urge Congress to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just sign on at right and we'll forward the petition to Congress. Here's the bill summary:
[infographie] Qui vous surveille sur Internet? La protection de la vie privée sur Internet pose question à de nombreux utilisateurs. Pour autant, Facebook et Google font peu de cas de cette notion, ce que résume parfaitement bien cette infographie. Voici une infographie instructive qui résume les problèmes que les géants du web rencontrent avec la protection de la vie privée. [Les sources sont disponibles en fin d'articles, les liens sont en anglais] Facebook Facebook et MySpace ont récemment reconnu avoir partagé des noms d’utilisateurs avec leurs annonceurs. Le rapport de 2010 est décrypté dans cet article de Cnet. En mai 2010, une faille de sécurité a permis aux utilisateurs de Facebook d’avoir accès aux conversations par chat de leurs amis, qui sont privées par défaut. Mark Zuckerberg semble avoir une position ambiguë sur les questions de vie privée: selon un ancien employé anonyme, il ne “croit pas à la vie privée”. En mai 2010, Facebook a modifié les paramètres de confidentialité par défaut de ses utilisateurs. Google