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President Duterte has banned porn in the Philippines; Filipinos now need to unblock porn websites

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Internet users in the Philippines are now being forced by their government to use technological means to unblock porn. The South East Asian country is the latest to ban the world's biggest legal porn…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Understanding the fundamental, irreconcilable conflict between copyright enforcement and privacy of communication

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

Enforcement of copyright is fundamentally, conceptually incompatible with privacy of correspondence. You can't have the sealed and private letter in existence at the same time as you enforce copyright, once…

Categories: Copyright, General Privacy News

He’s Alive: Julian Assange Used the Bitcoin Blockchain for Proof of Life

Updated on Aug 4, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange featured the Bitcoin Blockchain in his most recent public appearance, a live-streamed Reddit AMA hosted by Twitch.tv. The Bitcoin Blockchain is the ultimate timestamping software, and…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

LG wants to put WiFi in every new 2017 device – why that should worry you

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

LG, the Korean tech corporation, recently announced at CES that they intended to put wireless access aka WiFi in every one of their new 2017 devices. One such smart device that…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Despite promises, metadata gathered by Australian mass surveillance may be made available to civil litigators, not just law enforcement

Updated on Jul 16, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Australia, one of many countries that conducts mass surveillance with mandatory metadata logging laws, is planning to make your private information available in civil proceedings. When Australia initially passed the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

In science fiction, robot witnesses to crime are seen as normal. Nobody considered the privacy implications for present day.

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The Police wants the cooperation of a robotic witness to a murder case, requesting Amazon's help in recalling what the domestic robot "Echo" heard in the room. Robotic witnesses have…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Old lady denied exchanging life savings in old banknotes for new issue; could not prove innocence of money; dies

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

Ethel Hülst had saved for some old-age luxury all her life, cash-in-mattress style, and wanted to exchange her old-issue-note savings for new-issue banknotes. Faced with demands of proving where her…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

The Government didn’t install cameras and microphones in our homes. We did.

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

It begins: Amazon's constantly-listening robotic home assistant was near a domestic murder case, and now the Police wants access to anything it might have heard. There have been similar cases…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Comcast still uses MITM javascript injection to serve unwanted ads and messages

Updated on Jul 15, 2020 by Caleb Chen

For years, Comcast and other large telecommunication companies around the world have injected javascript into your web browsing experience to serve advertisements and account notices. Their ability to do this stems…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

The Great “Fake News” Scare of 1530

Updated on Dec 31, 2016 by Rick Falkvinge

Fake news has always been around for humor purposes, but the real "fake news" scares happen when the establishment is so used to getting away with lying, that any alternate…

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