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Judge rules that California can continue with its net neutrality law

Posted on Feb 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California has ruled to let the state of California enact SB 822, a net neutrality law that…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Clubhouse users are teaching each other how to stay private from Instagram

Posted on Feb 19, 2021 by Caleb Chen

One of the first things that you hear to do on Clubhouse is to add your Twitter and Instagram accounts to your Clubhouse profile for discoverability because otherwise there’s really…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media

China releases draft of major new privacy law: why it matters to everyone online

Posted on Jan 28, 2021 by Glyn Moody

China has frequently figured in this blog, usually in the context of its censorship, surveillance activities, and wide-ranging abuse of human rights. But there's another side to the story. Like…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger

Posted on Jan 20, 2021 by Caleb Chen

QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was made by Chinese internet users on the…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Abusive surveillance in the name of public health is a widespread problem around the world, new report says

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 by Glyn Moody

When Privacy News Online first wrote about Covid-19, in February, we noted that it would touch on key concerns of this blog: freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy. Already by…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

German authorities want large porn sites to implement age verification or be blocked via DNS

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Internet service providers (ISPs) in Germany may soon be forced to apply DNS blocks to stop users from accessing porn sites like Pornhub, xHamster, and YouPorn. German authorities, led by…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

EU politicians want Europe’s next big digital law to tackle micro-targeted advertising, by regulating or even banning it

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Although privacy is by its very nature personal, it is also something that concerns everyone. As a result, local data protection laws can have a global impact. That's certainly been…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Thailand orders ISPs to block Telegram amid ongoing protests

Posted on Oct 20, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Thai users of Telegram will soon need a VPN to access the increasingly popular messaging app. The government of Thailand has ordered Thai internet service providers (ISPs) to block the…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

Pakistan bans TikTok; calls videos “immoral and indecent”

Posted on Oct 19, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has officially banned TikTok for providing access to “immoral and indecent” videos - though it remains to be seen how permanent this ban will be.…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Russia wants to outlaw TLS 1.3, ESNI, DNS over HTTPS, and DNS over TLS

Posted on Sep 22, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media has released a draft law which outlines plans to outlaw TLS 1.3, ESNI, DNS over HTTPS, and DNS over TLS.…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments
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