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Does California’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee actually care about privacy?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee of the California Assembly is supposed to have an obvious, eponymous purpose - but doesn't seem to. There’s a new “online privacy” bill in…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Hungary suspends some GDPR privacy protections as part of COVID-19 “state of emergency”

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Hungarian government is suspending portions of the GDPR as part of their COVID-19 response. They are allowed to do so because the country is under a state of emergency…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Growing storm over UK’s coronavirus tracing app shows how not to do it

Updated on Nov 23, 2022 by Glyn Moody

As this blog noted a couple of weeks ago, many governments around the world are looking to introduce coronavirus tracing apps to help take their countries out of lockdown. The…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Private Internet Access announces third year of WireGuard® sponsorship

Updated on Aug 25, 2022 by Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access is happy to announce that we are sponsoring the WireGuard® project as a bronze company donor. Private Internet Access first sponsored WireGuard in 2018, and with our…

Categories: Announcements, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, VPN

Is the GDPR failing? If it is, how can it be saved?

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The coronavirus pandemic rightly dominates the headlines, including those of the privacy world, but in the background, life goes on. For example, companies operating in the EU are still subject…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Keeping your digital footprint clean during quarantine

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Right now the news is being flooded by articles highlighting the importance and efficacy of physical sanitation habits. Tips that you’ve undoubtedly heard an inundating number of times by now…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides, VPN

Private Internet Access announces another year of Let’s Encrypt sponsorship

Updated on Jul 16, 2025 by Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access is proud to announce a second year of Silver Sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt. Private Internet Access believes that every website should be served encrypted over HTTPS for…

Categories: Announcements, Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, VPN

UK government plans to let more agencies access internet connection records with Investigatory Powers Act expansion

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Investigatory Powers Act was passed in 2016 and mandated that internet service providers and mobile data providers in the UK store internet connection records for twelve months. Internet connection…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

What’s the best approach for building Bluetooth-based tracing apps as a way out of the pandemic lockdowns?

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Glyn Moody

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, governments around the world are desperately trying to find a way to ease current lockdowns without triggering massive new waves of infection by Covid-19. There…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

ZecOps discovers current iOS mail app vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A zero-click security vulnerability has been found that leaves hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads vulnerable to remote code execution. The vulnerability affects iOS 13 through the MobileMail app.…

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