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Complete Victory: EU Supreme Court Rules Blanket Logging Requirements Blanketly Unconstitutional

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The EU Supreme Court (European Court of Justice) has ruled that no European country may have laws that require any communications provider to perform blanket indiscriminate logging of user activity,…

Categories: General Privacy News

Egyptians forced to use a VPN to access encrypted messaging app Signal

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Encrypted messaging just took a blow in Egypt. Since this past weekend, many internet users with an Egyptian IP address are no longer able to send or receive messages or…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

European authorities crack down on zero-rating ISPs, defending net neutrality

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Telecom authority PTS is cracking down on the European ISP Telia for having unmetered traffic to Facebook and Spotify while metering other traffic, in violation of net neutrality. Earlier this…

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Court approves Australian #siteblock on The Pirate Bay, Solarmovie, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt, and others

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Australian Federal Court has ordered that 61 websites associated with The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, TorrentHound, SolarMovie, and Torrentz, be blocked by Australia’s internet service providers (ISPs). Australian internet users have…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Private Internet Access partners with Reddit IRC hub Snoonet

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Private Internet Access is honored to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Snoonet. As a long time supporter of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Snoonet is a natural addition to Private Internet…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

Understanding the Hamburg “illegal links” ruling and its problems

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

A Hamburg court has ruled that certain links were illegal when they were pointing at photos that were posted in violation of copyright. This ruling follows the worst fears of…

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Private Internet Access funds OpenVPN 2.4 audit by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Private Internet Access is happy to announce that an OpenVPN 2.4 audit is going to be completed by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Information…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, VPN

Ahead of 2022 World Cup, Qatar doubles down on internet censorship and blocks independent news website

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Last week, an independent news website in Qatar, Doha News, discovered that they had been blocked in Qatar. While there has been no official news on why this block has…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

Private Internet Access VPN response to Investigatory Powers Act

Updated on Aug 23, 2022 by Caleb Chen

The United Kingdom has passed a draconian mass surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act), which will force the collection of UK internet connection records for a whole year.…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

How do you call something dystopic when dystopia keeps upgrading itself to something worse?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

Civil rights activists have a PR problem. When calling a bad development out as the worst seen in a democracy, that's the strongest you can condemn something. The development thus…

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