Censorship and privacy can be hardly maintained reasonable for everyone in the field of internet communication. Some people, especially the ones who provide security may find censorship necessary while others like the ones for whom the censorship was made may find it unnecessary. Both censorship and privacy leave an effect on each other: if you have more privacy then there will be less censorship and if you have more censorship then there will be less privacy. Such divergence often leads to cases of violation of censorship or privacy which I will describe below in two interesting cases.
Anti-censorship organization GreatFire was attacked by Chinese censorship authorities
GreatFire is a non-profit organization that makes people of the Western civilization aware of the hard censorship cases in China that keep its citizens away from many information sources on the Internet. The combination of Chinese government actions to filter and censor Internet materials has become known as the Great Firewall. This is the case of bad censorship when people are restricted not from carefully selected materials but from a wider range of things. Such limitations are not made in social favor but to fulfill the needs and ideology of the government which gives this censorship mostly a negative appearance. GreatFire non-profit has been often targeted with DDoS attacks that were made presumably by Chinese hacker groups. In 2015 DDoS attacks coming from China on the websites that were against Chinese policies have become known as the Great Cannon.
Privacy rules were broken when Zoom was displaying data from people’s LinkedIn profiles
During a coronavirus, pandemic Zoom took advantage of massive usage of its service by having a secret service called LinkedIn Sales Navigator that was allowing some people to access LinkedIn profile data about other users. This feature was accessible during the meeting to any Zoom user who was subscribed to LinkedIn Sales Navigator. It allowed getting LinkedIn information about users such as location, real name, role on the job and other data. Some findings say that even when a person was joining Zoom meetings under a pseudonym the platform still was able to match this person to his LinkedIn profile. When this security breach was reported, Zoom disabled the LinkedIn Sales Navigator service completely and said that from now on it will take users’ privacy extremely seriously.
Sources:
https://www.techinasia.com/top-10-censorship-china-2015
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31967100
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