The US adds Sandvine to its entity list, banning the networking equipment company from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship
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Apple: iCloud Private Relay will not work in China, Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user's web browsing behavior …
Twitter suspends more state-backed accounts for information operations; this batch originated in China, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Ecuador
In October 2018, we disclosed the first comprehensive archive of state-backed information operations on Twitter.
Facebook details its first takedown of inauthentic accounts linked to the Saudi government, alongside a separate takedown of accounts linked to UAE and Egypt
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Encrypted messaging app Wickr partners with circumvention service Psiphon to dodge internet blocks and evade censorship
As encrypted chat apps grow more popular, they're also becoming more popular targets for state-level blocks. Whether it's brief interruptions in Brazil and Egypt …
Egypt's new law allows state to block social media accounts and blogs with 5K+ followers on sites like Facebook and Twitter, requires licenses for new websites
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news. Tweets: @sub8u and @monaeltahawy ...
Egypt passes law regulating ride-sharing services Uber and Careem that requires them to obtain special licences, share user data with government “on request”
Egypt requested access to Uber's “Heaven” live rider data, preps bill requiring ride-hailing services put servers in Egypt and link customer data to government
CAIRO — As Uber sought this year to expand in Egypt, one of the most competitive ride-sharing markets …
Open Whisper Systems, the developers behind Signal, use “domain fronting” for its Android app to bypass censorship in Egypt and UAE, with iOS update coming soon
Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it.
Obama administration working with foreign governments to let them to serve US tech firms with warrants for email searches and wiretaps
Internet companies could face overseas demands for email searches, wiretaps — The Obama administration is working on a series of agreements … Tweets: @ijurisdiction and @mbrauchli Tweets: InternetJu...