இந்திய சுதந்திரப் போராட்டத்தில் தியாகங்கள் புரிந்த தமிழ்நாட்டுத் தியாகிகளின் வரலாற்றை இளைய தலைமுறையினர் அறிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும் எனும் நோக்கத்தில் இந்த தமிழக தியாகிகள் வெளியான தமிழ்நாட்டுத் தியாகிகள் பலருடைய வாழ்க்கைக் குறிப்புகள் கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.
David Kaye, Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, introduced and was a crucial advocate for the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015.
Malkia Amal Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network, Malkia Amal Cyril’s work
MPs David Davis and Tom Watson
Maricarmen Sequera is the director of TEDIC, a Paraguayan digital rights organization
Journalists Scahill and Begleyrevealed that American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the world’s largest producer of SIM cards and stole vast quantities of encryption keys
As director of the digital liberties organization Bolo Bhi, Farieha Aziz has been at the forefront of the campaign to modify the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2015, currently under consideration in Pakistan.
Netzpolitik released confidential documents to the public exposing Germany’s plans to launch bulk surveillance programs
a District Court struck down an 11-year-old gag order imposed by the FBI on Nicholas Merrill, the owner of Calyx, an internet service provider.
Kakao (formerly Daum Kakao), owns a South Korean internet company with a popular messaging service
The U.N. Human Rights Council
Moxie Marlinspike (& team), founder of Open Whisper Systems, an open source software group that freely offers the programs Signal, TextSecure, and Redphone
Hacking Team, covertly sold advanced communications surveillance services and resources to multiple governments and entities with poor records on human rights.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, pushed through dangerous new legislation that lacks clarity and precision, and authorizes French intelligence services to exercise broad surveillance powers without prior judicial approval or oversight.
Pablo Romero Quezada is the former director of Ecuador’s intelligence agency, the Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia (SENAIN)
Attorney General Githu Muigaifought to preserve Kenya’s Security Laws despite a High Court judgment overturning the legislation.
Canadian MP Steven Blaney was the sponsor of Bill C-51
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron
Anthony Batts, former Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department in the U.S. Acting under a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI that was signed by a previous commissioner, the Baltimore Police Department used the “Stingray” surveillance device 4,300 times
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi argued before India’s Supreme Court that privacy is not a fundamental right
Spanish Judge Javier Gómez Bermúdezjailed seven people without specifying the individualized charges or facts attributed to each suspect, forcing the defendants to make statements without knowing what they were accused of.
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Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-chaapproved legislation to create a National Cybersecurity Committee
Washington Post Editorial Board suggested that the U.S. Congress could compel Apple and Google to use their “wizardry” to create a “Secure Golden Key” for the government to access otherwise secure user data
Gerhard Schindler is president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND)
U.S. Senator Richard Burr, As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Burr has been a driving force behind the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) legislation
A: RESEARCH PAPERS: Score, on a 100-point scale, based on science papers in top journals (Digital Science, 2011)
B: PATENTS ISSUED: Number of patents (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011)
C: EXPENDITURE: Gross domestic expenditure on research and development (2009*)
D: HIGHER EDUCATION: Number of science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded (2009*)
The Boston Consulting Group’s new E4 index assigns points in four categories, each equally weighted in the final score. Of the 20 countries ranked, here are the top 10.
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