The protests in Hong Kong are much in the news. But for readers of this blog, there's a particular reason why they are of interest. Mainland China is well known…
Thailand has ordered all restaurant and cafe owners who provide WiFi to start storing the internet history of patrons for at least 90 days. This new announcement came at a…
A circuit judge has ruled that States can enact their own net neutrality laws - like California is doing - and that isn’t against the current federal rules on net…
Last week we wrote about two important judgments from the EU's top court – the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). It has just released another long-awaited ruling…
Social media apps like WhatsApp will be obligated to share what they share with the US with the UK under a proposed United States, United Kingdom treaty called the CLOUD…
One of the more controversial elements of EU data protection law is the so-called "right to be forgotten" (RTBF), which dates back to 2014. This allows EU citizens to request…
One of the principal concerns of privacy is to prevent others – typically governments or companies - from monitoring what we think. They have to do that indirectly, by spying…
*** UPDATE - 9/11/2019 - we have been able to successfully unblock our servers in Hong Kong, and our VPN is working well there currently. See: "Private Internet Access No…
The Trump Administration supports the permanent restoration of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allowed the National Security Administration (NSA) to collect the phone records of American citizens as…
President Trump has a plan to involve the FTC and FCC in policing censorship by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Earlier in August, CNN’s Brian Fung reported…
