If you surf the internet in Cuba, you can be pretty sure a government spy is watching you.
Private internet connections are banned, forcing most people into internet cafes where software monitors their every click, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on 19 October. Cafe users must also hand over their name and address.
While few websites are blocked outright, if a user types in a potentially subversive word, the name of a known dissident, say, a pop-up appears saying the document has been blocked for 鈥渟tate security reasons鈥�, and the application shuts down. 鈥淭he authorities control the web not through censorship but by limiting the number of people accessing it and by spying on communications,鈥� says Julien Pain of the RSF.
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