#Digital Rights

Articles (7)

• 🇺🇸 Video game 'Minecraft' spotlights censorship with new U.S. room — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Reporters Without Borders unveiled a new room in the Uncensored Library, a virtual library within Minecraft created as a loophole for journalists to disseminate articles censored in their home countri...

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Media Censorship
• 🇬🇧 Unexplained Moscow internet blackouts spark fears of web censorship plan — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Kremlin appearing to ramp up control over internet, as it tests new ‘whitelist’ restrictions and pushes people to state-owned app</p><p>Muscovites have been turning to walkie-talkies and pagers ami...

  Related: #Internet Censorship
• 🇺🇸 Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli Strikes — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

  Related: #Cyber Warfare, #International Conflict, #Military Operations
• 🇬🇧 Sky News joins media leaders to drive push for AI standards to 'protect original journalism' — 26/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Sky News has joined some of the biggest news outlets in the UK in seeking to build a coalition of broadcasters and publishers to set protocols for AI's fair use of their material.

  Related: #Media Innovation, #AI Ethics, #Journalism Sustainability
• 🇺🇸 Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  The throttling of the communication app, used by more than 100 million Russians, endangers what remains of the country’s free internet.

  Related: #Censorship, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Privacy
• 🇺🇸 MLB players strike deal to be turned into AI characters that can chat with fans — 05/02/2026 [USA]

  Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans

  Related: #Sports Technology, #AI Innovation, #Fan Engagement