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Iran and China have merely followed The U.S. and British Governments' lead on this type of Citizen surveillance. So why all the complaining from the U.S and Great Britain? They wrote the book on spying on Citizens?
Iran cracks down on Internet as Parliamentary Elections near.
As Iran nears its March 2 parliamentary elections, Tehran is adding new surveillance measures over its citizens Internet freedoms. In a briefing on Friday, the Department of State, said that the move will cut Iranian citizens off from the global conversation. The announcement comes as Iranian authorities work to develop a national intranet, which would effectively replace the World Wide Web for Iranians.
Iran issued regulations giving Internet cafes 15 days to install security cameras [and] start collecting detailed personal information on customers and document users online footprints, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, calling the crackdown Irans most sweeping move yet. The rules also require users to furnish personally-identifying information in order to log on to the Internet at the cafes, including the users name, fathers name, address, telephone and national identification numbers.
The text of the regulation reads that the rules are aimed at promoting transparency and organization for Internet businesses and offer more protection against online abuse.
Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia all rank among the top 10 most visited sites by Iranian Internet users, according to statistics from website analytics site Alexa.com. Social networks like Facebook and YouTube rank in the top 20 most visited sites for Iranians. Tehran has already enacted measures to block its citizens from accessing those sites.
In 2009, Tehran created a 250,000-strong Cyber Police task force to monitor the Internet. The creation of two Cyber War centers that employ 2,000 Cyber Army staff was announced in October by Gen. Hossein Hamedani, the Revolutionary Guard commander in Tehran.
Business owners are upset that the regulation will hurt business, and student activists against the current regime are afraid that the government is closing in on them and acting to make it more difficult for dissidents to communicate with the outside world, the Wall Street Journal reported.
During Irans 2009 elections, the world watched on Twitter as protestors took to the streets of Tehran over what many perceived to be a stolen election. Pictures and video capturing the states violent suppression of the protests were uploaded to the social network. One infamous video posted to the Internet during the protests depicts a woman bleeding to death after she had reportedly been shot through the chest by a sniper.
Read more: Iran | Internet Freedom | Green Revolution | The Daily Caller
Iran cracks down on Internet as Parliamentary Elections near.
As Iran nears its March 2 parliamentary elections, Tehran is adding new surveillance measures over its citizens Internet freedoms. In a briefing on Friday, the Department of State, said that the move will cut Iranian citizens off from the global conversation. The announcement comes as Iranian authorities work to develop a national intranet, which would effectively replace the World Wide Web for Iranians.
Iran issued regulations giving Internet cafes 15 days to install security cameras [and] start collecting detailed personal information on customers and document users online footprints, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, calling the crackdown Irans most sweeping move yet. The rules also require users to furnish personally-identifying information in order to log on to the Internet at the cafes, including the users name, fathers name, address, telephone and national identification numbers.
The text of the regulation reads that the rules are aimed at promoting transparency and organization for Internet businesses and offer more protection against online abuse.
Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia all rank among the top 10 most visited sites by Iranian Internet users, according to statistics from website analytics site Alexa.com. Social networks like Facebook and YouTube rank in the top 20 most visited sites for Iranians. Tehran has already enacted measures to block its citizens from accessing those sites.
In 2009, Tehran created a 250,000-strong Cyber Police task force to monitor the Internet. The creation of two Cyber War centers that employ 2,000 Cyber Army staff was announced in October by Gen. Hossein Hamedani, the Revolutionary Guard commander in Tehran.
Business owners are upset that the regulation will hurt business, and student activists against the current regime are afraid that the government is closing in on them and acting to make it more difficult for dissidents to communicate with the outside world, the Wall Street Journal reported.
During Irans 2009 elections, the world watched on Twitter as protestors took to the streets of Tehran over what many perceived to be a stolen election. Pictures and video capturing the states violent suppression of the protests were uploaded to the social network. One infamous video posted to the Internet during the protests depicts a woman bleeding to death after she had reportedly been shot through the chest by a sniper.
Read more: Iran | Internet Freedom | Green Revolution | The Daily Caller