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Don’t let telecoms write EU Net Neutrality rules: Leave a comment with BEREC to #SaveTheInternet

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

EU Net Neutrality is facing its starkest challenge yet. The millions of netizens under the laws of the European Union are fighting for the very survival of net neutrality, and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Privacy is not an individual privilege, as much as it is a collective benefit

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

All debates on privacy at the society level tend to focus on the individual rights of people vs. a collective desire for law enforcement. But this view of individual vs…

Categories: General Privacy News

How will a Brexit affect your privacy?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

Among all the questions talking about the consequences of a British exit from the European Union, one seems to have been unanswered: how does this affect your fundamental rights and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Dear Chief Justice John Roberts, Search and Seizure: Does Innocence Matter?

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Aleksandr Ivanov

The United States Constitution’s 4th amendment supposedly protects us from illegal search and seizure. This constitutional right against illegal search and seizure has been tested time and again in the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Join the EFF against the Rule 41 update which lets federal judges unconstitutionally hack you

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A proposed amendment to Rule 41 of United States Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure could grant blatantly unconstitutional rights to American judges. The proposed new powers would allow US federal…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Can the previous owner of your security camera spy on you? Webcam privacy scare highlights Internet of Things security difficulties

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

Over the weekend, the security community heard rumors about a potential issue with the NETGEAR Internet of Things wireless security camera. A user reported to the privacy subreddit that after…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

TPP, TTIP don’t seem to be coming around after all – here’s why

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The two protectionist agreements masquerading as free trade agreements, TPP and TTIP, appear to be meeting serious resistance - TTIP in particular. This makes the entire coup attempt unlikely to…

Categories: General Privacy News

What happens when private limitations on freedom of speech get endorsed and expanded by government?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The European Commission is requesting/requiring Facebook, Twitter, and others to police their networks against undesirable political opinions and bad speech. This is cause for concern on a number of levels.…

Categories: General Privacy News

Vint Cerf imagines a self archiving internet – one that could lead to a more open future

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

What would a self archiving internet look like? At the recent Decentralized Web Summit hosted by the Internet Archive, Vint Cerf, one of the computer scientists hailed as a founding…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Thanks to TeLeScope, TLS Communication With Your Virtual Servers Can Now Be Unencrypted

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Earlier this week, BitDefender demonstrated the TeLeScope technique, which allows an attacker to decrypt TLS communication between a target and a virtualized server. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News
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