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How many new laws proposing crypto backdoors? Let's see if we can make a list..

California Bill Seeks Phone Crypto Backdoor
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html

New York Wants to Force Vendors to Decrypt Users’ Phones
https://www.onthewire.io/new-york-wants-to-force-vendors-to-decrypt-users-phones/

UK Government Goes Full Orwell: Snooper's Charter, Encryption Backdoors, Free Speech Suppression
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150528/07001931137/uk-government-goes-full-orwell-snoopers-charter-encryption-backdoors-free-speech-suppression.shtml

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One of its WORST kind! --
China rates its own citizens - including online behaviour
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/china-rates-its-own-citizens-including-online-behaviour~a3979668/
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans

In China, Your Credit Score Is Now Affected By Your Political Opinions – And Your Friends’ Political Opinions
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/

Inside China’s plan to give every citizen a character score
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28314-inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans

Experts, policy makers urge world governments not to undermine encryption
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2016-01-12/news/69704926_1_encryption-information-security-security-and-privacy

20 Jan 2016 -- On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union unveiled a new campaign to introduce a slew of pro-privacy bills in 16 states across America and the District of Columbia.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/aclu-pushes-for-passage-of-new-pro-privacy-bills-across-16-states/
#TakeCTRL

EU fights back : EU seeks more clout for national privacy regulators in new US data pact
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/EU-seeks-more-clout-for-national-privacy-regulators-in-new-US-data-pact/articleshow/49961432.cms

#TakeCTRL: Americans take to Twitter to campaign for more privacy
https://www.rt.com/usa/329868-takectrl-digital-privacy-campaign/

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INDIA
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India's Central Monitoring System (CMS): Something to Worry About? — The Centre for Internet and Society
http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/india-central-monitoring-system-something-to-worry-about

Central Monitoring System by Year-end(2015) in India
(Can someone confirm if its active now?)
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Central-Monitoring-System-by-Year-end/2015/05/21/article2825301.ece

India violating privacy of Internet users: report
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-violating-privacy-of-internet-users-report/article6381469.ece

The Law of Online Privacy in India - Supreme Court Cases
http://www.supremecourtcases.com/index2.php?option=com_content&itemid=5&do_pdf=1&id=20967

INDIA:The cyber law series: How data privacy and surveillance have crept into the workplace
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/the-cyber-law-series-how-data-privacy-and-surveillance-have-crept-into-the-workplace-295363.html

The Short-lived Adventure of India’s Encryption Policy
http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-short-lived-adventure-of-india2019s-encryption-policy

Intelligence agencies are using terrorism as a lever to weaken online privacy
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Intelligence-agencies-are-using-terrorism-as-a-lever-to-weaken-online-privacy/articleshow/50159364.cms

MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar pushes for a Privacy Law, says IT Ministry’s response in Parliament was “misleading”
http://www.medianama.com/2015/08/223-rajeev-chandrasekhar-privacy/

India Only ‘Partly Free’ When it Comes to Internet Freedom

http://thewire.in/2015/11/08/india-only-partly-free-when-it-comes-to-internet-freedom-14963/

@vik Does this thread cover privacy issues as well? data reach , intrusion of privacy legally/ illegally , free speech stc.. stuff like that?.. if yes , ive got some..

@arjun I was thinking about encryption but, yes let's include privacy issues generally

Something positive :
The SNOWDEN treaty : a proposed treaty that would curtail mass surveillance and protect the rights of whistleblowers:
http://www.snowdentreaty.org/

How the NSA used an encryption flaw to spy on trillions of connections | BGR
http://bgr.com/2015/10/20/nsa-encryption-flaw-spy/

This one really worries me (Dont forget to read Top-Down Control of the Internet and ISP Liability)
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared

WikiLeaks - TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter - 5 October 2015
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/

U.S.A : Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/congressional-hearings-on-surveillance-programs-to-kick-off-in-secret/

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http://thewire.in/2016/01/29/the-internet-has-a-new-standard-for-censorship-20386/

In short:
Presently there is no way of determining whether a site has been ordered to be blocked by the Government or if it is down due to technical reasons.

You either get Error 403 ‘Forbidden’ (to indicate that the server can be reached and understood the request, but refuses to take any further action) or 404 ‘Not Found’ (to indicate that the requested resource could not be found but may be available again in the future).

Basically , ISP’s can choose to display an ERROR 451 as a standardised way to notify users know when a website is unavailable following a legal order.

The code creates a distinction between websites blocked following a court or an executive order, and when information is inaccessible due to technical errors.

The use of the code will improve confidence in blocking practices, allowing users to understand the grounds on which their right to information is being restricted.

How does this help?
**Makes the Government accountable on matters of

online censorship.
**Implementing a standardised machine-readable flag for
censorship will go a long way in bolstering the
accountability of ISPs that have in the past targeted an
entire domain instead of the specified URL.

5g internet drones, that just sounds wrong in so many ways...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/29/project-skybender-google-drone-tests-internet-spaceport-virgin-galactic

James Clapper says they might spy on you using your fridge...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-home-devices-government-surveillance-james-clapper