‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technology (NYT)
 
Also read: Women in computing: the 60s pioneers who lit up the world of coding (The Guardian)

"Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You." (Micah Lee in The//Intercept)

"Under the banner of free speech, companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been host to rape videos and revenge porn — which makes female users feel anything but free." (Soraya Chemaly and Catherine Buni in The Atlantic) 

(Illustration: Jackie Lay, The Atlantic)

(Hackers from the HOPE X convention in New York City posed in support of the Zone 9 bloggers and free expression.)

“The time has come to create privacy tools for normal people with a normal level of technical competence. That is to say, all of us,” says Cory Doctorow in The Guardian

New report from Transparency International: A review of current legislation across 15 countries and the EU.

"Google, fairly or not, has become a glaring proxy for criticism of an intrusive American government and concern over America’s unmatched technology dominance" (New York Times)

Also read: “Silicon Valley’s era of untrammelled global expansion is over”. (Financial Times)

(Alaa Abd El Fattah and Manal Hassan. Photo by Lilian Wagdy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Global Voices offered some context and analysis, and brought together some of the reactions on Twitter.

“Afraid for his hold on power, Putin cracking down on internet freedom with a flurry of new laws.” (Foreign Policy)