China and the Internet's Turbulent Relationship: the Monday Round-Up

China has been all over tech news this week - Anonymous China, updates to the Great Firewall, and censorship are among the top stories. Check out our China-related news and others we're reading:

• The hactivist group Anonymous has a new Chinese branch called Anonymous China, which last weekhacked and defaced hundreds of Chinese websites
• A paper published in First Monday looks atthe extent of Internet censorship in China. The China Center at Brookingsreleases a studyon the relationship of "strategic distrust" between the U.S. and China.
• Team Cymrudiscovered in December that China's Great Firewall has been updated to block Tor bridges. Now, Swedish researchersdiscover how access to the bridges is being blockedand suggest possiblities for circumvention.
• Thinking about moving your organization's projects to the cloud?ENISA releases a guideto assess the security of cloud-based service providers, including monitoring tips.
• A paper presented at Digital Humanities Australaisia 2012 maps out the Australian Twittersphere, focusing on Twitter traffic during natural disasters.
• DailyTekk has a list of the Top 100 Twitter Tools of 2012, and the 50+ best ways to curate your social media and news content.
• What kind of information does Facebook release when it's subpoenaed? In the case of the Craigslist killer, anything and everything on your profile, including your friends list and tagged photos.
• Doing the impossible: a guide to deleting content from the Internet.
• Tanzania launches a TV campaign to educate its citizens in preparation for digital migration. The government plans to migrate to digital broadcasting by 2015.
• Press freedom remains up for debate more than a year after the Arab Spring, particularly in Iran and Lebanon where a few proposed laws threaten online freedom of speech.
• OpenNet Initiative takes a look at global Internet filtering in 2012, while a House Foreign Affairs panel approves legislation that would bar U.S. companies from helping foreign governments censor the Internet.
• Google publishes research on Internet usage in sub-Saharan Africa.
• A tool that disguises Tor traffic as Skype video calls can be used to get around Internet blocks in repressive governments.
• Al-Qaeda is hit by a massive cyberattack, and cybercriminals mount new malware schemes in advance of the London Olympics.
• Berkman Center publishes a paper detailing the impact of the Internet on Russian politics, media, and society, and two weeks ago Internews held a panel discussion on the same topic.
• A village chief in Kenya uses Twitter to fight crime and recover stolen property.