In a new bill just passed by the European Parliament, the European Union decided to give Internet censorship powers to each state's consumer protection agency, completely without judicial oversight or…
Italian internet service providers (ISPs), and telecommunication companies are now forced to store the logs of your electronic communications data (telephone traffic data, electronic communications traffic data and data related to unsuccessful calls)…
Privacy News Online has just written about an "unprecedented" injunction granted by a US judge against the site Sci-Hub. The reach of that injunction is clearly deeply problematic for lots…
A US Judge has granted an injunction that forces search engines and internet service providers (ISPs), not just domain registrars, to block Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub is a free, online archive that…
WhatsApp is really getting under the skin of the authorities in certain Asian and African countries. Just in the last couple days, there has been a move to block the…
Last week's hearings before US lawmakers has provided us with new insights into the workings of companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, and how they have been subverted by Russia…
It is that time of the year, again. This is worth remembering, every year. https://youtu.be/KKvvOFIHs4k?t=27s Privacy not just remains your own responsibility: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Stories about privacy have a depressing tendency to be about its loss, and the increasing threats to it in the future. Perhaps we need to spend more time thinking about…
Verizon does not want states or localities to have the ability to enact their own net neutrality rules should the FCC vote to destroy net neutrality under the guise of…
Websites and extensions that facilitate Youtube MP3 conversions are disappearing in the United Kingdom (UK). Two large stream ripping sites, MP3juices and YTMP3 are now blocking UK IP addresses from…