This report describes Citizen Lab’s investigation into the global proliferation of Internet filtering systems manufactured by the Canadian company, Netsweeper, Inc. After undertaking a mapping of worldwide country installations, Citizen Lab focuses in on ten country cases in which they verify that Netsweeper systems are being used to censor the Internet for subscribers of consumer Internet Service Providers, and where human rights and corporate social responsibility questions are acute.
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April 25, 2018
Planet Netsweeper
A Citizen Lab report says 10 countries are using Canadian filtering technology to censor the internet (map courtesy of Citizen Lab)