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Internet freedom under attack by Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritan’s Act

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

The “Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritan’s Act” has been introduced to the US Senate and would do away with legislation that has become a cornerstone of internet freedom…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

The coming Pakistan VPN ban: PTA sets deadline for VPN users to register by June 30th

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has issued a reminder that all VPN users need to register their VPN tunnel with their internet service provider (ISP) by June 30th, 2020. This…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

35 Members of Congress sign letter asking federal agencies to stop surveillance on Black Lives Matter protests

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) have published a letter which was sent to multiple federal agencies demanding that the federal agencies stop spying on Black Lives…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Government drones and aircraft are being used to surveil the ongoing protests in American cities

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The government is flying predator drones and other military aircraft, well known for their use in foreign combat zones, over US cities to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality.…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

DOJ grants DEA permission to conduct “covert surveillance” on protesters

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The DEA is now surveilling protesters in the United States. BuzzFeedNews has uncovered a memorandum that shows that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been granted powers by the Department…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

House delays vote on renewing FISA surveillance powers to grant FBI warrantless access to internet history

Updated on Aug 4, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Your internet history is safe from the FBI… for now. Government surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - which have sat unrenewed since March - failed to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Top EU data protection agency under pressure to act against Internet giants as GDPR turns 2 years old

Updated on Jul 28, 2021 by Glyn Moody

A few weeks ago, this blog noted that there were questions hanging over the GDPR, not least the fact that no major fines had been issued against top Internet companies.…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

House to vote on whether the FBI can access internet history without a warrant: Act now to Save Internet Privacy

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Internet privacy is on the line as Congress votes this week on whether or not the FBI will be able to access the internet history of Americans without a warrant.…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

OpenSAFELY: more proof that tackling the coronavirus pandemic does not require privacy to be compromised

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Glyn Moody

In recent weeks, there has been an intense focus on the use of contact tracing apps as a way to emerge safely from the lockdowns that are in place around…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Germany’s highest court rules individual right to privacy applies to everyone, even non-Germans

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court in the country, has ruled that parts of a 2016 law that allowed monitoring of the internet activity of foreign targets…

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