China expands Great Firewall to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI
The Great Firewall of China is getting longer. Chinese censors upgraded the GFW to be able to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI. We know about this…
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The Department of Justice wants to stop California from having net neutrality
The US Department of Justice has filed for an injunction to stop California from implementing their own net neutrality laws. Net neutrality has been repealed in the United States Federal…
Turkey takes Germany’s “hate speech” law, and makes it much worse with its own censorship and data localization rules
Last month we wrote about France's "hate speech" law, and noted that it followed in the footsteps of the earlier German law known as NetzDG (short for “Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz”, or network…
Chinese gamers will need to verify their real names on all games by September
China is rolling out a real name authentication and verification system for all gamers in the country by September as a way to track gamers and make sure that they…
Some T-mobile customers shadowbanned from texting after sending the word “belly” via SMS
T-Mobile customers were being shadowbanned from sending SMS text messages for ten days because they sent the word “belly.” When shadowbanned, T-Mobile users receive no notice that they have been…
Key questions raised about algorithmic transparency by new GDPR case brought against Uber by its drivers
Back in 2017, this blog noted a new threat to privacy from the increasing use of workplace surveillance. Once people's work is quantified automatically, it can then be used for…
The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach
Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This…
Study confirms companies with poor privacy practices are more likely to suffer data breach
A new whitepaper by Osana confirms what many of us already suspected: that companies with poor privacy practices are 80% more likely to suffer a data breach. To back up…
US Court rules that cryptocurrency exchanges must give up your private financial data
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that. The ruling came down in the case of U.S. v. Gratowski and sets the precedent that law enforcement…
Top EU court sinks main framework for sending personal data across the Atlantic
The Privacy Shield framework for transferring personal data across the Atlantic was brought in to deal with a problem created by the EU's GDPR. According to the latter, the personal…