While most people have long suspected that their smart TVs are spying on them, there is now definitive proof. Two new studies have highlighted that smart TVs are still not…
One of the principal concerns of privacy is to prevent others – typically governments or companies - from monitoring what we think. They have to do that indirectly, by spying…
A report by ZDNet, with help from vpnMentor’s Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered what’s likely the largest data leak in the history of Ecuador. This leak contains roughly…
Back in January, Privacy News Online wrote about some important research from Privacy International. It found that 61% of the Android apps it investigated automatically transfer data to Facebook the…
For the last several days, Private Internet Access servers have been blocked in Hong Kong. However, we are pleased to announce, that we have been able to successfully unblock our…
*** UPDATE - 9/11/2019 - we have been able to successfully unblock our servers in Hong Kong, and our VPN is working well there currently. See: "Private Internet Access No…
UK internet users and internet users around the world need to beware of the GHOST protocol. The GCHQ, which is the United Kingdom’s (UK) equivalent of the American NSA, came…
Back in May Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed: the future is private". Now Google is joining in: Privacy is paramount to us, in everything we do. So today, we are announcing a…
The Trump Administration supports the permanent restoration of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allowed the National Security Administration (NSA) to collect the phone records of American citizens as…
President Trump has a plan to involve the FTC and FCC in policing censorship by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Earlier in August, CNN’s Brian Fung reported…
