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De-spamming service “Unroll” selling your inbox to Uber shows the importance of information hygiene, yet again

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

It was a perfect service: sorting your mail and not just removing all spam for you, but also unsubscribing you from all of that spam garbage going forward. It kept…

Categories: General Privacy News

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

Lyrebird.ai is a new site that will allow anyone to “copy the voice of anyone”

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Lyrebird.ai, a new tech startup out of Montreal, Canada, promises to let you recreate anyone's voice with just a single minute of recording data. They even promise to be able…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

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

Russia drafts bill to ban VPNs and proxies; force search engines to remove search results

Updated on Jul 21, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Russia will soon see a new bill before the Duma that aims to ban VPNs and proxies that do not comply with the Roskamnadzor, Russia's online censorship machine. Though the bill…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, VPN

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

WhatsApp and Facebook might soon share your data with each other

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Justin O'Connell

A new EU agreement could mean WhatsApp user data is shared with Facebook, despite user protest over privacy incursions. The new deal amends WhatsApp’s relationship to Facebook in what would…

Categories: General Privacy News, 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…

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