Turkey is the worst offender in Twitter's Transparency Report 2015/1 with 125 accounts withheld out of 158 worldwide. http://pic.twitter.com/i2CeuwZfHs
— Yaman Akdeniz (@cyberrights) August 11, 2015
Twitter receives 442 court orders for removal of content worldwide and no surprise 408 of them are from Turkey http://pic.twitter.com/dueVolWSr7
— Yaman Akdeniz (@cyberrights) August 11, 2015
According to the 2015's first Twitter Tranparency Report, out of 1003 total requests worldwide, 718 comes from Turkey, almost %71.
— Yaman Akdeniz (@cyberrights) August 11, 2015
Twitter is getting more serious about its biannual transparency reports. The company today announced it’s expanding its reports’ scope with two new sections: trademark notices and the email privacy practices of several providers. It’s also rolling out a redesign for its transparency hub, making it a bit easier on the eyes on mobile and simplifying access to reports for individual countries. As for the most recent report itself, there are no huge surprises.
Governments want your data now more than ever
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A phone slams into an acoustic coupler on the desk. Screeching beeping sounds. Two people sitting side-by-side in front of a computer. One is a socially awkward nerd. The other is cooler, but dumber.
The nerd types something really fast on the keyboard. A rotating Necker cube appears on the green monochrome monitor. SECTOR-INFILTRATE SEQUENCE INITIATED. We see rapidly scrolling strings of hexadecimals reflected in the nerd’s wireframe glasses.
“YES! We’re in.”
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