Tuesday, November 5

Tag: freedom of press

Non-Profit Organization RSF Urges Chinese Reporters To Quit Apple iCloud
CHINA

Non-Profit Organization RSF Urges Chinese Reporters To Quit Apple iCloud

Reporters Without Borders or Reporters Sans Frontières(RSF), a non-profit NGO that promotes freedom of information and freedom of the press calls on Chinese reporters and journalists who are using Apple iCloud to close their accounts or relocate by February 28, 2018, when control of their data will pass to the Chinese state. This is because of the Apple's move of outsourcing the Chinese iCloud operations to a firm which has ties with the local government, by February 28. "RSF alerts journalists and bloggers using iCloud China to the danger that this migration poses to their security and the security of their sources, and urges them to migrate their account to another geographic region or to close it by 28 February," the report reads. Apple iCloud stores the majority of an iPhone or Ma...
Global Press Freedom Hit The All Time Low: Report
ANALYSIS, INSPIRATIONAL

Global Press Freedom Hit The All Time Low: Report

Global press freedom has recently declined to its all time low ever in 13 years in 2016 amid unprecedented threats to journalists and media outlets in major democracies. As per the research done by Freedomhouse.org only 13 percent of the world's population enjoys a Free press. Not to forget the far-reaching attacks on news media in a democratic society by Donald Trump, first as a candidate and now as the President of  United States.Borrowing a term popularized by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Trump has labeled the news media as “enemies of the people”. Yet, U.S. remains as one of the most press-friendly countries in the world, in comparison to the countries like North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iran, Syria who are designated as Not-free in the Freedom of press 2017.  While the pr...