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WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube blocked in Turkey following arrest of pro-Kurdish political party HDP leaders

Updated on Jul 16, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Social media sites Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube and messaging service Whatsapp are currently being blocked across Turkey according to an incident report by Turkish Internet watchdog organization Turkey Blocks. Originally, Turkey…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Turkey blocks Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter… again

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Starting Thursday, 11:07PM local time in Turkey, internet users started reporting that Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter had been blocked. Internet users in Turkey were forced to use a VPN to…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

A History of Media Control and Media Blackouts in Coups d’Etat

Updated on Jul 16, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

With the information disarray coming out of Turkey during the (seemingly failed) military coup, we see the same pattern of attempting to control media as we've seen for the past…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Turkey blocks Facebook and Twitter following military coup to unseat Erdogan

Updated on Jul 27, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Turkey coup to unseat Erdogan has predictably resulted in social media censorship as the Turkish government and military start firing shots. The two major bridges leading in and out…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Vietnam’s Temporary Facebook Ban Forced Vietnamese to Use Privacy Software

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

More Russian social-media face recognition: Criminals instantly identified by AI from CCTV footage

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

Russia's FindFace service, which has been in the news for identifying random subway passengers and for people using it to de-anonymize porn talent, continues to show the effects of an…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

Subway photographer connects random photos to people’s social media profiles

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Егор Цветков (Egor Tsvetkov), a photographer in Russia, has taken photos of random people on the subway and connected them to social media portraits and complete profiles using face matching…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

Facebook exec arrested in Brazil highlights troublesome language barrier on civil rights

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

A Facebook executive was arrested (and subsequently released) in Brazil for refusing to hand over Whatsapp metadata to authorities. This story highlights how reality sometimes hits you in the face…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

Twitter Censorship of Drone Assassinations: Do We Need A Stronger “Mere Conduit” Accountability?

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

It was too conspiratorial to be true - links showing stories on the United States Drone Assassination Program weren't showing up on Twitter if you were accessing Twitter from United…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media

French Court Says French Freedom Of Speech May Trump Facebook’s Censorship

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

A French court has ruled that a challenge to Facebook's terms of service under French law may go ahead in a French court. A man had had his account suspended…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media
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