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If the government won’t protect your online privacy, you’ll have to do so yourself

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Sam Hoger

With the Trump Administration settling into office, we are seeing more legislation passed and even agency action all with the end goal of doing away with the protection of individual…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

These are the 23 Senators that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your private internet history

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Protection of your Internet history is up in the air thanks to new, pending legislation. A new bill coming before Senate aims to completely dismantle the FCC’s ability to enact…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Once again, the tinfoil hats were wrong: reality is way worse than they claimed

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

The Vault 7 leak by Wikileaks reveal CIA hacking tools, hoarded zero day exploits

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Trump Administration wants to renew FISA Section 702; keep Snowden revealed NSA surveillance programs PRISM and Upstream

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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.…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Tired of DMCA, RIAA now seeks ISP cooperation in catching and stopping copyright infringement

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) lobbied the FCC for permission to spy on you

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed is the worst privacy leak in recent Internet history

Updated on Jul 15, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Cloudflare revealed today that, for months, all of its protected websites were potentially leaking private information across the Internet. Specifically, Cloudflare's reverse proxies were dumping uninitialized memory; that is to…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Private Internet Access is safe – On SHA-1 Security

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by PIA Team

The team behind shattered.it has recently released a practical attack on SHA-1. We want to put our users at ease by clarifying that the current attack on SHA-1 is not…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News

What Americans do on public wifi

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Justin O'Connell

Public wifi - You’ve seen it before. Wifi names like “Google Starbucks”, “PEETS” and others. In this day and age, when we think cafe, we also think unlimited wireless internet…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News
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