Big firms lined up to help repressive governments; governments helped themselves to private phone calls and e-mail.

His sudden departure sent shock waves through the Arab world, where autocratic leaders preside over similarly repressive governments.

Without the United States as a party to the treaty, however, repressive governments can easily discount the treaty's provisions.

We support multiple tools, so if repressive governments figure out how to target one, others are at the ready.

The report focused on parliamentarians who had accepted hospitality from corrupt and repressive governments while providing political access and lobbying.

Facing repressive governments which restricted public criticism, they turned to expressionism to depict ideas which people feared to declare openly.

His arrest is just the latest in a worldwide trend of repressive governments cracking down on Internet journalists and dissidents.

And we invest in the cutting edge because we know that repressive governments are constantly innovating their methods of repression.

Moreover, when they confronted repressive governments, seeking to defend individual children and relatives, they were subjected to harassment, persecution and violence.

Channelling money through profoundly corrupt and repressive governments is not the only thing wrong with how Irish foreign aid is managed.

Vietnam offers a case study in the conflicting pressures the likes of Facebook and Google confront when operating in countries with repressive governments.

However, some analysts suggested the language used betrayed a lack of clear thinking and insight into the way in which repressive governments use technology.

Among other things, the proposed law would make it a crime for U.S. companies to turn over their customers' personal information to repressive governments.

On the flip side, promoting social media while also supporting repressive governments empowers dissidents without giving them any reason to sympathize with U.S. interests.

As I and many others have written, Putin wants to create a "conservative international" to unite the world's repressive governments and movements against liberalism.

As repressive governments adapt their techniques at blocking connectivity, so too will U.S. measures to help "digital activists... adapt to the challenges they face."