Ten countries are introducing Canadian Internet filtering technology for "Internet censorship"

byBench Accounting

Based in Toronto UniversityCitizen · LabHowever, Canadian companies ·NetsweeperToday announced the findings of Internet filtering technology. According to it, the technology was introduced in 30 countries, of which 10 were used for nationwide "Internet censorship".

Planet Netsweeper: Executive Summary
https://citizenlab.ca/2018/04/planet-netsweeper/


To censor the internet, 10 countries use Canadian filtering technology, researchers say | CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/citizen-lab-netsweeper-internet-filtering-tech-censorship-1.4631243

It is not clear what country Netsweeper's technology is being introduced, but at Citizen Lab, we will scan publicly available IP addresses and check network measurement data and confirm installation in 30 countries . Utilizing further data, there are ten countries in Afghanistan, Bahrain, India, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen where ISPs are conducting filtering at the national level I confirmed.

In the following maps produced by Citizen Laboratory, it is the country which was painted brown and the introduction of Netsweeper was confirmed. Ten countries that Netsweeper plays an important role are painted in red.


Some of the cases blocked are listed as follows.

· Kuwait: abortion, sex education, alcohol
· Bahrain: politics,Human Rights Organization, Google's search results of "gay" "lesbian"
· UAE: Politics, human rights groups, Greenpeace (environmental protection organization), news,LGBT Q +
· Yemen: Political enemies, enemy news, net privacy tools
·India:Al Jazeera,Daily Telegraph, Part of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter account

At Citizen Lab, we are asking whether the Canadian government is obliged to solve problems concerning the services developed by domestic companies are used for abusing human rights abuses and privacy violations abroad.

At Netsweeper, for the research of Citizen Lab, Netsweeper strictly strives to make society safer, the statement that the overwhelming majority of clients are government and government agencies trying to protect children from labor exploitation Has been announced.

Media Release: Netsweeper responds to media enquiries for international operation
(PDF file)https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Media-Release-Netsweeper-23-Apr-2018.pdf

In Citizen · Lab, all data sets are released on GitHub, so anyone can check the data contents.

GitHub - citizenlab / planetnetsweeper: Supporting data for Citizen Lab Planet Netsweeper Report
https://github.com/citizenlab/planetnetsweeper