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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The European Union plans to distribute new software to help human rights activists and dissidents in authoritarian regimes circumvent censorship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"Enabling citizens of authoritarian countries to bypass surveillance and censorship measures depends on two basic conditions: availability of appropriate technologies (in particular software programs that can be installed on one's desktop computer, laptop, smart-phone or other device) and awareness, both of the techniques used by authoritarian regimes to spy on citizens and censor their communications, and of the appropriate counter-measures to use," explained the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>For more detail <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222594/EU_to_give_secret_anti_censorship_software_to_human_rights_activists">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222594/EU_to_give_secret_anti_censorship_software_to_human_rights_activists</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>[IAS] Who others would be using this application?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>