カテゴリー: Internet
In recent months, followers of influential liberal bloggers have been interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance Late last year, Duan*, a university student in China, used a virtual private network to jump over China’s great f…
Government denies new cybersecurity measures responsible for up to 40% drop in internet speeds across the countryFor the free online tech skill classes advertised, there were hundreds of Facebook “likes” and in the end 1,500 people signed up. But on th…
As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?Audrey Tang didn’t have the easiest of starts in life. T…
National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear and defence intelligenceNorth Korean state-backed hackers have mounted a campaign to obtain secrets related to nuclear materials, military drones, submarines and shipbuildi…
The island networks of Vava’u and Haʻapai were cut more than two weeks ago following damage to the undersea cableParts of Tonga have been without internet for more than two weeks after an undersea cable was damaged in an earthquake, leaving a third of …
Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere onlineAt first glance, a Nobel prize winning author, a bottle of green tea and Beijing’s Tsinghua Universi…
For the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million peopleBryan Akoijam had spent years building up his entertainment company in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur. Between his thriv…
Organised criminals use threats, torture and sexual violence to coerce victims to work in international scamming operations Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked and forced to work for online scamming operations in south-east Asia run by…
The pandemic showed us how digital divides worsen inequality – this project shows they’re not inevitableDigital poverty and exclusion hide in plain sight. In an era of hyper-connectivity, millions are left in the shadows, even in the wealthiest countr…
Defence ministry says it cannot rule out ‘cognitive warfare tactics’ after disinformation during Chinese drillsTaiwan’s defence ministry has raised the alarm about disinformation attacks during the recent Chinese military drills and alerted local media…