This is a human rights observation project for the Internet. OONI seeks to observe levels of surveillance, censorship, and networked discrimination by networked authoritarian power structures.

The consumer revolution is in progress. Do you know what part you play in it?

It's the little things that make life worthwhile, and websites such as Pinterest give people a platform to tell everyone else all about them.

Today's financially stressed and burdened service sector, government and nonprofit alike is seeing an intense scrutiny and pressure from funding sources and clients.

Last year, the buzzword in e-commerce was Groupon and its myriad of competitors that offered daily online coupons to entice shoppers in a down economy. Now, the latest fashion in retail is social gifting, where people get together on Facebook to buy each other gifts.

US president signs executive order targeting people and firms that help authoritarian regimes clamp down on dissidents

Kenyan journalist and blogger Dennis Itumbi's blog put him in big trouble with his country's government in March 2012.

After the controversial cartoon case, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee now seems to have taken offence to some of her pictures posted on Facebook. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state has written to the social networking site, asking it to remove four pictures lampooning Ms Banerjee.

How an iPhone can be accessible to blind users.

Is Facebook becoming such a big hub that we may see new frontier social networks begin to pop up? Instagram was gobbled up pretty fast by Facebook...