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Global online freedom declined for a fifth consecutive year as more governments stepped up electronic surveillance and clamped down on dissidents using blogs or social media, a survey showed Wednesday.
The annual report by non-government watchdog Freedom House said the setbacks were especially noticeable in the Middle East, reversing gains seen in the Arab Spring.
Freedom House found declines in online freedom of expression in 32 of the 65 countries assessed since June 2014, with "notable declines" in Libya, France and Ukraine.
The researchers found 61 percent of the world's population lives in countries where criticism of the government, military or ruling family has been subject to censorship.
And 58 percent live in countries where bloggers or others were jailed for sharing content online on political, social and religious issues, according to the "Freedom on the Net 2015" report.
CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act) in the USA and TPP (Trans=Pacific Partnership) globally will likely continue the trend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2015, @04:03PM
i think we went from 64 Kb c64 to now "who needs more then 640 KB" in the internet privacy world.
soon steve jobs will be fired and apple will be sold short only to move to a awesome comeback.
next we will have the pentium calculating flaw in the internet privacy world, which will be something like "install this and read all and every
data accumulated by 5 eyes so far from any device" and then probably we will have geocities, myspace and then, finally somebody
from the trenches of world war I will step in and take it to the absolute next level of facebook and google .. only in the internet privacy world.
at this point i hope to be old enough not to have to care anymore