2 March 2012

Stories from 2 March 2012

Mexico Adopts Alarming Surveillance Legislation

  2 March 2012

The Mexican legislature today adopted a surveillance legislation that will grant the police warrantless access to real time user location data. The bill was adopted almost unanimously with 315 votes in favor, 6 against, and 7 abstentions. It has been sent to the President for his approval. There is significant...

China: Netizen detained for 3 days for reposting message to QQ group

  2 March 2012

A Poet, Zhou Nan, based in Wenzhou city, Zhejiang was arrested by re-posting a micro-blog message by Long Yihai in his QQ group. [QQ group is a popular online platform for group chat.] Long Yihai's Weibo message was about military vehicles running in the street of Baoding, Hebei province on...