Tag: Saudi Arabia
  • Mar 17, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Drawing the Line: Are Smart Cities Compatible with Human Rights and Privacy?

PIA blog followed Google’s Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto for some years, until the plan to create a futuristic smart city was dropped in 2020. The principal problem with the project was privacy. A Guardian article quotes Jim Balsillie, co-founder of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, as saying that the project was “a colonizing experiment … Continue reading “Drawing the Line: Are Smart Cities Compatible with Human Rights and Privacy?”

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  • Mar 24, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship

Media freedom activists have built a 125 million block library in a Minecraft map called the “Uncensored Library” which contains a world’s worth of information and is available to read for users within oppressive regimes that otherwise censor such information. This massive digital library was unveiled for the World Day against Censorship by the organization … Continue reading “Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship”

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  • Oct 21, 2018 |
  • Chris Miller |
  • Announcements, Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

#WeHearYouKhashoggi

The image you see above, is part of a full page ad we ran in The New York Times Sunday Edition today, October 21, 2018.   Late last night, we were informed that our ad had been pulled, but around 80,000 copies had already left. The ad had already been approved and paid for.  However, that … Continue reading “#WeHearYouKhashoggi”

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