As we get increasing insight into the self-image of the surveillance agencies around the world, a disturbing image of self-appointed alpha males appear, rather than the modest and professional civil…
Now that Bitcoin recently crossed the $1,000.00 threshold for the first time in its short life, a discussion on the regulatory status of Bitcoin in the United States ("U.S.") is…
Bitcoin heralds great promise to break that symbiosis between banks and governments that enable erosion of our financial privacy. But in the absence of banks, bitcoin comes with its own…
At Private Internet Access, we’ve always been very interested in forward-thinking payment methods. We were one of the first VPN providers to officially accept Bitcoin (BTC/XBT), and additionally, we were…
There is an ongoing discussion whether we should fear governmental intrusion into our privacy more, or corporate carelessness with our private data more. This is a false framing of the…
With the recent attention drawn to massive ongoing surveillance of the internet, Brazil and Germany proposed a resolution to the United Nations (“U.N.”) General Assembly on November 07, 2013, that…
The revelations during the past year over the National Security Agency ("NSA") and its surveillance of major internet service providers have placed into question the integrity of companies we have…
People who defend today's mass surveillance tend to claim that the collected data on everybody's private communications and movements won't be abused. History tells us that they are horribly and…
One of the common areas of confusion regarding law and online privacy is the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712, and how it applies to government requests for…
When we talk of privacy online, it is easy to narrow the discussion to something that can be described as "anti-wiretapping". But privacy is a much more diverse and important…