Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Thailand’s junta leader on Friday defended his government’s increasing crackdown on social media dissidents, while promising to restore democracy which he suspended in a coup two years ago. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said Thailand is in a transition toward “a strong…
Iran Orders Social Media Sites to Move Servers Inside Country
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about Iranian users onto servers inside the country, prompting privacy and security concerns on social media. Iran has some of the strictest controls on internet access in the…
The European Commission Wants You To Log Into Social Media Accounts With Govt-Issued ID Cards
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The European Commission plans to attack citizens’ right to online privacy, insisting that state-issued ID cards should be used to log into platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and even Uber. The Vice President for the Digital Single Market on the European…
FEDS MAY SCAN YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT CAN’T ‘FRIEND’ OR ‘FOLLOW’ YOU
Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. Background investigators may soon explore social media postings when deciding whether to grant a security clearance, but they won’t be able to use fake accounts…
A Second Look: Media Coverage of the 7th Workers’ Party of Korea Congress
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans With a few exceptions, the Western press and broadcast corps that trooped into Pyongyang to cover the recent 7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) deserves praise and our thanks. It was not an easy assignment. But let’s face…
Think you don’t have a social media governance problem? Neither did this football player
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. We just experienced one of the most highly publicized and bizarre social media blunders ever during…
Police monitoring social media blogs during Sarawak polls
MIRI: The Sarawak Police will tighten security in the state during the 11th state election, including by keeping close watch over the social media, to prevent negative elements that are detrimental to public order. Sarawak CID chief SAC Dev Kumar M.M.Sree Shunmugam said this would also include close monitoring of…
Israel is using social media to prevent terrorist attacks
AFTER six months of a wave of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Israeli security officials are warily speaking of signs of the attacks abating. Violent protests and rioting in the West Bank have waned, and the rate of stabbing, ramming and shooting attacks by Palestinians on Israeli soldiers…
How Has Social Media Changed Teen Girls’ Lives?
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CIA is investing in firms that specialize in sifting through social media posts
The Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm is investing in companies that develop artificial intelligence to sift through enormous numbers of social media postings and decipher patterns, according to a report. A document obtained by The Intercept indicates that In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, has made unpublicized investments in…