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Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
Author: Miguel Helft & David Barboza, New York Times
Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Google on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began directing users in that country to its uncensored search engine in Hong Kong...
Global Network Initiative - media coverage & responses (Oct 2008)
Author: compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Global Network Initiative, a coalition of Internet companies, human rights NGOs and others, agreed to new guidelines in October 2008 "to respond to government censorship and threats to privacy"... [Links to media coverage & responses. Refers to...
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- Related companies: Alibaba.com AT&T Cisco Systems eBay France Telecom (now Orange) Google (part of Alphabet) Microsoft Skype (part of Microsoft) Sprint Tom Online Verizon Vodafone Yahoo! (part of Verizon)
Author: AFP
Un code d'éthique visant à déjouer les efforts de censure et de surveillance de régimes autoritaires a été annoncé mardi par des géants de l'internet soucieux de redorer leur blason, après plusieurs affaires où certains avaient semblé complices. La ...
Author: Pierre Haski, Rue89 [France]
Dans un rapport intitulé de manière explicite « Rupture de confiance », le Citizen Lab [institut canadien] ...affirme que la plate-forme chinoise de Skype [filiale d'eBay], qui est produite en commun avec le groupe hongkongais Tom.com, surveille les...
Skype says China joint venture partner stores text messages
Author: Sinead Carew & Savio D'Souza, Reuters
Skype [part of eBay]…said on Thursday that TOM Online Inc, majority owners of Skype's Chinese venture TOM-Skype, had been monitoring and storing some of its users' text messages without Skype's knowledge. Skype apologized after a report [by University...
Report finds Skype's Chinese venture TOM-Skype monitors messages for politically-sensitive keywords - includes comments by Skype, TOM Group
[PDF] Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform
Author: Nart Villeneuve, the Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, the University of Toronto
…Major Findings: The full text chat messages of TOM-Skype [joint venture Skype & TOM Group] users, along with Skype [part of eBay] users who have communicated with TOM-Skype users, are regularly scanned for sensitive keywords, and if present, the...
"Race to the Bottom": Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship
Author: Human Rights Watch
Some companies not only respond to instructions and pressures from Chinese authorities to censor their materials, they actively engage in self-censorship by using their technology to predict and then censor the material they believe the Chinese...
- Related stories: China: Human Rights Watch report accuses Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Skype of aiding govt. censorship - calls for US & EU legislation
- Related companies: Alibaba.com Cisco Systems eBay Google (part of Alphabet) Microsoft Secure Computing (part of McAfee) Skype (part of Microsoft) Tom Online Yahoo! (part of Verizon)
China: Human Rights Watch report accuses Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Skype of aiding govt. censorship - calls for US & EU legislation
Skype comes clean over China censor
Author: PCPro [UK]
Skype [part of eBay] has admitted that its partner in China has filtered text messages, but claims that compliance with local censorship laws is a necessary evil if it is to continue operating in the world's most populous country. Niklas Zennström,...