The Internet stands at a crossroads. Built from the bottom up, powered by the people, it has become a powerful economic engine and a positive social force. But its success has generated a worrying backlash. Around the world, repressive regimes are putting in place or proposing measures that restrict free expression and affect fundamental rights. Read more…

A collection of documents recently published by Wikileaks casts a light on surveillance vendors who sell intrusive monitoring technology to governments and law enforcement agencies. This growing industry—which serves countries around the world—offers the ability to monitor entire populations and circumvent the privacy and security safeguards built into conventional consumer technology. In an arstechnica report Read more…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates its 20th Anniversay on July 10, 2010. To commemorate this event, it has released this animation: This animation depicts three key issues that bother the average Internet user: 3. Onerous user agreements. Users regularly click through monstrous blocks of legalese in order to use the most popular web sites and Read more…

Isoc India Chennai held a meeting on a meeting on May 22, Saturday, evening between 5 and 7 00 pm to coincide with the visit of Rajnesh Singh. He is from Suva, Fiji, was President of Pacific Islands Internet Society (PICISOC) and now serves as Isoc’s Bureau Manager for Asis Pacific region. This meeting was Read more…

The Internet Society (ISOC) is happy to announce a new programme beginning in 2010: the ISOC Next Generation Leaders (NGL) programme. The NGL was officially launched 6 October 2009 at a youth forum lunch during the ITU Telecom World week in Geneva. The programme is aimed at emerging talents across the globe, between the ages Read more…