by Christina Bonnington and Spencer Ackerman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store — and therefore, from iPhones...
by Robert Beckhusen | Aug 8, 2012 | Monitor
Alexei Navalny showed up to work in Moscow on Monday to discover he was being bugged. He called the police, like many perhaps would, but not before tweeting photos and video of himself and his colleagues taking the Kremlin’s monitoring devices apart. It’s...
by Noah Shachtman and Robert Beckhusen | Jul 31, 2012 | Monitor
Alexei Navalny. Photo: Wikimedia Alexei Navalny, the Russian blogger who emerged as a prominent leader of an anti-Putin protest movement fueled by social media, is now facing up to 10 years in prison. On Tuesday, prosecutors from Russia’s State Investigative...
