AT&T plans to reinstate their GigaPower pay-for-privacy scheme, as revealed by AT&T VP Robert Quinn in a recent interview with C-SPAN. In 2014, AT&T started offering GigaPower 300 Gbps fiber…
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Australia's Attorney General Senator Brandis announced over the weekend that he would be leading the discussion on squeezing tech firms and forcing them to encryption backdoors in secure messaging apps…
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The Russian communications directorate Roskomnadzor, equivalent to the U.S. FCC, has threatened to ban the Russia-authored encrypted messaging service Telegram. Curiously, this is the only service that has been threatened…
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Today, Private Internet Access is shining the cat signal with a full page ad in the New York Times to gain support for the Net Neutrality Day of Action on…
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The British Internet provider O2 disputed the previous story that they don't permit people to access tools that give them anonymity protection, like this VPN service. "You only need to…
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A new law allowing the German police to hack into mobile phones for even minor crimes, is expected to be passed by the German parliament this week [update: the law…
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California Assemblymember Ed Chau has introduced a new internet privacy bill in California in direct response to the repeal of FCC internet privacy regulations, which were struck out several months…
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Jeff Bezos's Amazon has been granted a patent for a tool called "Physical Store Online Shopping Control," which helps brick and mortar locations control users' online shopping experience when they…
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Encryption is under attack around the world, and not just by hackers trying to break into systems. Governments continue to call for access to encrypted communications, despite universal warnings from…
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British Internet providers already censor political opinions they don't like. Specifically, they censor this blog by default, which is trivial to verify, thanks to Open Rights Group. This blog isn't…
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