The Monday Round-Up: #SouthSudan and #opendata

• Reuters has a great slideshowof South Sudan's first year of independence, andThe Guardiandiscusses the challenges still facing the nascent nation.
• A US congressional inquiry reveals that local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities made over 1 million demands for private information from cell phone companies last year. The data includes geolocation information, calls made and received, and contents of text messages.
• Hundreds of thousands of people across North America and Europe will be unable to access the Web today, thanks to the battle between the FBI and 2007's DNSChanger virus.
• Following in the footsteps of World Bank's Open Data Initiative, USAID has introduced a website and two mobile apps that provide users with interactive information about foreign aid.
• Phone and Internet companies in the UK will soon install "black boxes" to capture encrypted messages and monitor communication traffic as a result of the Home Office's communications data bill.
• The Indian navy's Eastern Naval Command computer network was broken into by a virus that has presumably delivered classified information to Chinese IP addresses.
• London recruits "ethical hackers" (no, not these guys) to test the Olympic computer systems in anticipation of increased cyberattacks as the Games draw near.
• Twitter follows Google's lead and publishes an annual Transparency Report, which aims to shed light on the government's demands for data from the social networking site.
• The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed last week to a resolution that citizens' freedom of expression online should be protected by all states.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, and other open-Internet proponents drafted a Declaration of Internet Freedom last week. Fortunately, they know what they're talking about, unlike the late, great Senator Ted Stevens.
• Facebook steps deeper into the mobile market, launching its App center internationally.
• This list of 101 Most Useful Websites includes Wolfram Alpha, Google Translate, and plenty of other helpful websites, some relatively unknown.
• Curious to know what exactly is going on with the Large Hadron Collider? Check out The Higgs Boson Explained.

Events

• The Berkman Center is hosting an event on the Mexican drug war and social media, tomorrow at Harvard Law School.
• TechSalon will be hosting a small discussion group on the ownership of the .Africa domain this Thursday in DC.