For two years, Bahrainis have been asking "Where is Ali Abdel Imam?" And now finally, they have an answer. The prominent opposition blogger suddenly emerged from hiding last week, announcing he had been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Read more, here.
Incepted by the late Aaron Swartz, Strongbox is a new project enabling people to share information, messages, and files anonymously and securely with writers and editors at the New Yorker, and is powered by Tor. Read more about the project, here.
A Nigerian documentary about the government's removal of a fuel subsidy last year, which sparked the country's Occupy Nigeria protest, has gone viral on the Nigerian blogosphere after authorities banned the film. The entire documentary, which has more than 43,000 views, is available on YouTube.
Read more, at africasacountry, and global voices online.
Tech Defenders is a new initiative launched by Front Line Defenders, Tactical Tech's partner in Security in-a-box. The project aims to engage the Irish (and Global) IT business community, share information on the digital security work they are undertaking, and seek support in the form of funding, facilities, promotion or feedback.
(The world through Google Glass, according to Google Glass (from the website).
Since Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 there have been concerns from privacy advocates. Now it has been confirmed that Microsoft has the ability to read URLs transmitted back and forth. "The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely".
Check out Pidgin as a secure alternative.
Business interests in Silicon Valley are accused of blocking a new 'Right to Know Act' in California that would have enabled people to access the information companies are accumulating on them online. This led commentators to note that the "new money of Silicon Valley is just the same as the old money of Wall Street or the fossil fuel industry".
(The progression of Taiwan’s open data ecosystem, from a talk by T.H. Schee. Image from from the Nieman Journalism Lab)
(Image from EFF)
(Logo from the GottoVote! Twitter page)
