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Dear FCC: Destroying net neutrality is not “Restoring Internet Freedom”

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Today, the FCC unveiled their official notice of proposed rule making, titled "Restoring Internet Freedom (doc)," that would end net neutrality as we know it in the United States. The…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Singapore High Court rules that telecoms don’t need to give up information on alleged downloaders

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The High Court of Singapore has stopped copyright holders from obtaining personal information on alleged copyright infringers and pirates from Singaporean telecoms and internet service providers (ISP). SSLA, a Singaporean…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai reveals proposal to reverse Title II and destroy net neutrality

Updated on Jul 20, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revealed their official plan to get rid of net neutrality today. The plan is to bring ISPs out from under FCC regulation by reversing the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Interest in VPN hits all time high as Egypt blocks VoIP apps like Skype, Facetime, Viber, WhatsApp, and even Messenger

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Voice over IP (VoIP) apps such as Facetime, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, and Messenger have been all but unusable from Egypt for the last few days. The recent wave of VoIP…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

USPTO site downgrades to HTTP despite US federal government promise to adopt HTTPS on all websites

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The US Patent Office's (USPTO) website is now unusable with HTTPS as of April 21st, 2017. This has happened despite a 2015 policy from the White House that promised an HTTPS only…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Net neutrality policy in Canada: “Internet providers must treat data traffic the same, regardless of content.”

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Canada is celebrating a net neutrality win with Telecom Regulatory Policy 2017-104. Zero rating, the act of having some apps or services not count towards a users' internet data cap,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

As Russian internet censorship grows, Twitter reportedly agrees to move some user data to servers in Russia

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Twitter has reportedly agreed to comply with Russia's Big Brother law - which forces tech companies to store data on Russian soil. Russia's Big Brother laws, passed in July of…

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

Russia threatens to ban VPNs and proxies that don’t censor whatever the government wants

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Censorship in Russia may soon be aided by the very websites and services often used to bypass it. Russia censors its Internet through the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere…

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

India keeps shutting down the Internet for 12 million plus in Jammu and Kashmir

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Jammu and Kashmir region of India at the tumultuous border between India and Pakistan formally lost internet access on April 17th, 2017 (again). The most recent spat of internet bans…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Last week, Australia's law mandating telecommunications data retention went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe's abysmal 10-year failure with this exact law before it…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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