While the Internet has turned into a global surveillance machine, with only tech-aware and privacy-aware people opting out of the surveillance, it's important to remember that we could have had…
As US authorities decide they have the right to seize any data, the mandatory privacy suite expands: full-disk encryption goes from optional to very recommended, in addition to using a…
The nearly 75 million residents of Turkey will be unable to use PayPal to pay for online goods starting June 6th, 2016. PayPal’s decision to pull out of Turkey resulted…
Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come…
Google is currently fighting France over the most important internet censorship legal case this year - and it involves the controversial Right to Be Forgotten. Google has recently filed an…
Wikipedia begins its analysis on the history of privacy by recognizing Aristotle as the beginning of our collective understanding of privacy in humanity. This is wrong. Humans have been around for…
Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, groups in the European Parliament wants to give police the power to censor the Internet and even individual accounts with social media providers at…
Since the Snowden leaks, the US government has sought to repair its public image and curtail public knowledge of its invasions of privacy. Before 2015, the US government was allowed…
Five years with the "cookie law", taking effect in 2011, shows how politicians' good intentions - when coupled with incompetence - can create a security and privacy nightmare. It was…
How well does PIA work with Netflix’s Fast.com, the newest competitor to Speedtest.net? Notably, Fast.com runs a faster test than Speedtest does, this is because Fast.com only checks your download speed…