The Turkish government has been criticized for how it handles social media within its borders, as in 2014 when Twitter and YouTube were censored. At the time, writes Yusuf Mansur Özer, the co-founder of Turkish technology law initiative Statjus.com, the frequent censoring gave rise to citizens’ use of anonymous browsing. “Today,” he writes in this post for Privacy Perspectives, “we are witnessing the rise of private communications.” Since the recent coup attempt, and the corresponding arrests around the country, “people have started to care deeply about the tools they use for the purposes of communication,” adding, “After all, observation does change behavior.”
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