Detecting and Distinguishing Politically Motivated Internet Shutdowns

• In Event: State Surveillance & Censorship via ICT

Brief Overview

I scrape and cross-reference data on Google products and VPN services use (e.g. Tor) to detect Internet blackouts (time-series anomalies) using machine learning techniques. I establish that weak states resort to this blunt censorship tool.

Author

• Agabek Kabdullin, University of Rochester