PARIS: Europe's biggest satellite operator Eutelsat is more accustomed to staking out territory in outer space than worrying about earthly politics, but this year it was plunged into the thick of the Arab Spring.
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NAIROBI: Campaigners for a loosely regulated internet are alarmed at the risk to web freedom from fast-growing BRIC and other emerging economies seeking more say in how the online realm is policed.
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NAIROBI: Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.
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LONDON: Arab news network Al Jazeera will begin broadcasting its English news channel on Britain's Freeview free digital platform on Thursday, making the UK its biggest English-speaking market for free TV.
The network, which has branched out into (...)