With Olympics Looming, Russia Ramps Up Online Surveillance

As athletes, spectators, journalists and government officials descend on Sochi for the Winter Olympics in February, they will enter what experts are calling the most surveilled Olympics of all time.

Over the past several months, we've learned — the hard way — that surveillance starts online (and not just in the United States). Internet freedom activists fear that the Russian government, along with the Federal Security Service (FSB), will use Russia's vast array of spy tech and Internet censorship to restrict Internet freedom during the Olympics.