Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties

The Senate grilled Apple and Google this morning, but it could a lot more.
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Emailed testimony of a consultant and family physician detained during Bahrain’s crackdown on medical professionals.
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Syria has been accused of torturing activists to force them to reveal their passwords to Facebook websites that have sustained the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Anyone who has listened to the talk in the week since bin Laden’s death about the supposed job-well-done by torture would have good reason to ask, and to doubt us.
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In an exclusive interview, Rob Allen, a specialist from Penal Reform International in London acknowledged that the problem of many inmates still affects the African continent…
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THE United States told China it was hurting itself through its sweeping crackdown on dissents and nudged for economic reforms as the Pacific powers held top-level talks.
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Kathy Thomas knew she was under surveillance. The animal rights and environmental activist had been trailed daily by cops over several months, and had even been stopped on occasion by police and FBI agents.
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Poet arrested by Bahrain security. After reciting a satirical poem during the Bahraini protests, Ayat Al-Qormezi was arrested.
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The arrival of cloud computing is a time for more scrutiny of the entities that direct our virtual lives, writes Slavoj Žižek.
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The detainment [es] of Ecuadorian blogger Víctor Vizcaíno Luzuriaga for alleged offenses against Attorney General Washington Pesántez [es] became a trend [es] on Twitter, with strong reactions in the blogosphere and a harsh analysis regarding freedom of expression in Ecuador.
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