What is Netflix thinking, blocking VPN traffic?
So Netflix has banned people using VPNs in Europe from accessing their service. This move can be kindly described as "moronic", for a variety of reasons. To start off, we're…
General Privacy News
Understanding the Net’s disruption of the Power of Narrative, in historical context
The greatest power you can hold in any society is the Power of Narrative - the position where other people turn to you to find out what's true and what's…
Private Internet Access and Digital Rights Activism
We here at Private Internet Access care deeply about privacy and digital rights. First and foremost, we fight for privacy by building a product that protects millions of people around…
Apple vs Government Surveillance: As warned about for years, government is now asserting a right to succeed in wiretapping
In a case in San Bernadino, USA, courts have ruled that the government has a right to succeed in wiretapping an old iPhone, and is requiring Apple to help out.…
The world’s most powerful nuclear nation can’t protect its dirtiest secrets. What makes you think anybody will try harder to protect data collected about you?
Two recent events shine a spotlight on the complete absurdity of the claim that sensitive data collected through surveillance is "safe" in any way, shape or form. The first is…
The Opportunity Cost of Lost Privacy is Lost Innovation
The opportunity cost of lost privacy is lost innovation, and by extension, a low-happiness society that lags not only in liberty, but in all amenities considered modern. Therefore, privacy is…
It doesn’t matter why data is collected: it only matters that it is
A lot of procedures for collecting personal information go to great length to explain why the data is being collected and how it will be used. Sadly, it's all for…
Linux networking stack from the ground up, part 5
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 Overview This blog post picks up right where part 4 left off and begins by examining…
Understanding the new privacy (non-)deal between the US and EU
Yesterday, the US and EU announced that they had come to an agreement regarding US corporations' future use of EU personal data, after the European Court of Justice struck down…
Linux networking stack from the ground up, part 4
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 Overview This post will pick up where part 3 left off beginning by describing Receive Packet…