Herdict Technical Director Mike King and I attended the first (annual?) EU Hackathon held last week in Brussels, Belgium. This event, sponsored by Google and Skype, was an opportunity to educate members of European Parliament about Internet censorship, filtering, and the need for transparency. It was also an opportunity for 54 programmers to demonstrate the [...]
Reports coming out of Egypt today indicate that Twitter has become inaccessible in the country amid civil unrest in the country. TechCruch cited Herdict reports today as they continue covering the protests in real time. Fourteen inaccessibility reports for Twitter in Egypt were filed on Herdict just today, with 16 total coming from the country [...]
Jillian York gave a quick demo of Herdict, amongst other transparency tools, at Google and CEU’s Internet at Liberty conference this week. You can check out the video here: http://bit.ly/cTnznn (Herdict demo starts at 16:40, but all the tools are worth a look!)
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