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These 17 countries don’t believe that freedom of expression on the Internet is a basic human right

Updated on Jan 28, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Freedom of Expression on the Internet is taken for granted by many of us. Around the world, headlines are heralding the fact that the UN has passed a resolution which…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Apple patents technology enabling police to prevent iPhones from filming police abuse

Updated on Jul 1, 2015 by Rick Falkvinge

Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it's seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. The intention is…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, Governments

What could a whole year of your internet history reveal? The UK wants to find out – and without needing a warrant

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Does your internet history from the last twelve months have anything that you wouldn’t want the public, the government, or even a blackmailing hacker to know about? For most people…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Don’t let telecoms write EU Net Neutrality rules: Leave a comment with BEREC to #SaveTheInternet

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

EU Net Neutrality is facing its starkest challenge yet. The millions of netizens under the laws of the European Union are fighting for the very survival of net neutrality, and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

How will a Brexit affect your privacy?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

Among all the questions talking about the consequences of a British exit from the European Union, one seems to have been unanswered: how does this affect your fundamental rights and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Dear Chief Justice John Roberts, Search and Seizure: Does Innocence Matter?

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Aleksandr Ivanov

The United States Constitution’s 4th amendment supposedly protects us from illegal search and seizure. This constitutional right against illegal search and seizure has been tested time and again in the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Join the EFF against the Rule 41 update which lets federal judges unconstitutionally hack you

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A proposed amendment to Rule 41 of United States Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure could grant blatantly unconstitutional rights to American judges. The proposed new powers would allow US federal…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

The fight over the Internet is a fight over the Power of Narrative, just like with the printing press

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The fight over the Internet has happened before, almost step by step, with the fight over the printing press 550 years ago. As the Catholic Church lost its power to…

Categories: Governments

Regulators genuinely don’t understand the Internet can work fine without their regulation

Updated on Jul 19, 2016 by Rick Falkvinge

Every now and then, we see regulators trying the most asinine move toward the Internet: banning encryption, requiring this, prohibiting that. They seem to be trying things at random, and…

Categories: Governments

Now that PayPal has left Turkey, Turks should use Bitcoin

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The nearly 75 million residents of Turkey will be unable to use PayPal to pay for online goods starting June 6th, 2016. PayPal’s decision to pull out of Turkey resulted…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments
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