Turkey - Parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance

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Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data Turkey's national assembly passed two last-minute amendments today expanding the grounds under which the High Council for Telecommunications (TIB) can temporarily block websites without a court order, and allowing it to gather Internet user connection data independently of any ongoing investigation. Coming just after the end of the Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul, the amendments showed that the Turkish (...)

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