August, 2010

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Stories from August, 2010

5 August 2010

Blackberry face growing pressure in the Gulf and India over encryption code

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Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · United Arab Emirates, Middle East & North Africa

The United Arab Emirates’ Telecommunications Regulation Authority (TRA) and The Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced, respectively on August 1st 2010 and on August 5th, 2010, that they will block some functions of the Blackberry due to non-compliance with the regulatory requirements in both countries.

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4 August 2010

Blocking of Wikipedia reported in Iran

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Written by Tal Pavel · Iran

According to news published in English and Persian on July 25, the Wikipedia free encyclopedia website was blocked in Iran and could not be accessed. Users tryng to acess the...

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2 August 2010

USA: Wikileaks representative detained

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Written by Mohamed ElGohary · USA

Jacob Appelbaum, a representative of Wikileaks, has been detained for 3 hours by US agents at the borders after returning from Holland trip. Recently Wikileaks published more than 90,000 leaked classified U.S. military documents. These documents reportedly reveal hidden details of the Afghanistan war.

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