With WikiLeaks' release of the CIA hacking tools, we can observe that the people described as tinfoil hats were wrong once again - nobody had described the state of affairs…
Wikileaks has released a set of CIA documents in a new series of leaks that reveal the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) hacking capability. The Vault 7 leak by Wikileaks starts…
In a surprise move, Switzerland has a bill passing through parliament that would introduce net censorship to protect domestic gambling against foreign competition. This is as dangerous as it is…
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 2008 has been the “legal” backbone of NSA’s mass internet surveillance programs for almost the entirety of the last decade.…
The copyright industry is trying - again - to forcefully conscript Internet Service Providers into doing their bidding. This time, the RIAA and other organizations are demanding "filtering", which is…
Unhappy with the anti-piracy results of DMCA takedown notices, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is now asking the US Copyright Office to compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to…
Google has agreed to demote so-called "pirate" sites from its search results, at the demands of the copyright industry. All experience from the past 600 years says this is a…
Your Internet service provider's (ISP) ability to not only spy on you, but to profit on that spying, has been upheld by the FCC. Ajit Pai, President Trump's pick for the…
All governments of the world are cracking down on privacy and increasing mass surveillance, sometimes in the name of copyright enforcement, sometimes in the name of fighting terrorism, sometimes because…
Cryptocurrency will cripple governmental ability to collect taxes, and they won't see it coming. When it's already happened, expect major changes to take place in how society is organized on…