The Cuban government has authorized the state telecom company to provide Internet access to the country’s budding private cooperatives, the Cuban News Agency reported Friday.

British spy agencies hacked messages exchanged over Google, Facebook and Twitter by changing the definition of comms on the platforms, a Privacy International report reveals.

Over 150,000 French people have supported a petition urging President Francois Hollande to grant NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum in France after his refugee status expires in Russia in July.

Google has opened a service for European users to request deletion of their data from search engines if they consider their content irrelevant or outdated, a move that followed the ruling of the European court calling for the "right to be forgotten."

Key digital rights activists – including Edward Snowden and hacker Jacob Appelbaum – have been blacklisted from the Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) on internet openness and freedom. The move has caused a stir at the gathering and outraged Twitter users.

Speaking of Zunzuneo and the banning of his Facebook profile, CubaSí talked to writer Raúl Antonio Capote, the man who evaded CIA for many years. Thanks to the AP, the world learned about Zunzuneo, one of the US subversive projects financed by the USAID aimed at undermining Cuban stability through an SMS service for cell phones in social networks.