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Poland’s COVID-19 “selfie app” raises privacy questions – will everyone eventually be tracked?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

People in Poland under a mandatory 14-day quarantine have an interesting way to prove that they are following the quarantine. Usually, such mandatory quarantines are checked on by local authorities…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Toronto, Canada is now using phone location data to track if people are congregating

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

This past Monday, Toronto Mayor Tory announced at a virtual TechTO meetup that the government has been receiving location data from wireless carriers and telecommunication companies in the area to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

Media freedom activists have built a 125 million block library in a Minecraft map called the “Uncensored Library” which contains a world’s worth of information and is available to read…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Jordan uses internet throttling instead of internet shutdowns and blocks to censor websites

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Internet blocking by governments is evolving at a fast pace, and new research shows that one government in particular, Jordan, has decided to start internet throttling instead of blocking to…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

As Covid-19 spreads around the globe, so does the idea of using smartphones to track everyone to help contact tracing

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Glyn Moody

It seems extraordinary that it was only a month ago that this blog wrote about the new coronavirus, also called Covid-19. At that time, it was not yet clear whether…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

WireGuide: All about the WireGuard VPN protocol

Updated on Mar 31, 2025 by Caleb Chen

WireGuard® is a relatively new VPN protocol when compared with the decades old OpenVPN and approaches software development with a different philosophy - do one thing simple and do it…

Categories: General Privacy News, Guides, VPN

Private Internet Access announces WireGuard VPN Beta

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access is happy to announce that the beta client and apps now feature WireGuard® VPN support. WireGuard on our desktop clients and mobile apps are currently being rolled…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News, VPN

Police forces around the world continue to push for routine – and real-time – facial recognition capabilities

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Facial recognition crops up on this blog more than most technologies. That's in part because the underlying AI is advancing rapidly, boosting the ability of low-cost systems to match faces…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Mozilla does not respect user requests to stop tracking telemetry data

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A Firefox system add-on called telemetry-coverage may still be sending your IP address data to Mozilla even if you explicitly turn off telemetry data - which has privacy implications most…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance

KrØØk WiFi vulnerability affected WiFi encryption on over a billion devices

Updated on Jul 23, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress WiFi chips makes it possible for attackers on your local WiFi network to decrypt your WPA2 encrypted internet traffic. The vuln, known as the…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News
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