WARP is not a VPN for privacy
You may have heard earlier this year that Cloudflare was planning a mobile VPN called WARP. Today, 9/5/19, Cloudflare has officially opened its WARP “VPN” feature on its popular 1.1.1.1.…
General Privacy News
Researchers show that smart TVs are sending your private information back to third parties like Netflix and Facebook
While most people have long suspected that their smart TVs are spying on them, there is now definitive proof. Two new studies have highlighted that smart TVs are still not…
Now is the time to defend the final haven for privacy: your brain
One of the principal concerns of privacy is to prevent others – typically governments or companies - from monitoring what we think. They have to do that indirectly, by spying…
Massive Novaestrat data leak effects over 20 million in Ecuador
A report by ZDNet, with help from vpnMentor’s Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered what’s likely the largest data leak in the history of Ecuador. This leak contains roughly…
Should apps share details of women’s menstruation and sex lives with Facebook and other sites? Some already do
Back in January, Privacy News Online wrote about some important research from Privacy International. It found that 61% of the Android apps it investigated automatically transfer data to Facebook the…
Private Internet Access No Longer Blocked in Hong Kong
For the last several days, Private Internet Access servers have been blocked in Hong Kong. However, we are pleased to announce, that we have been able to successfully unblock our…
As protesters march on, Private Internet Access VPN has been blocked in Hong Kong
*** UPDATE - 9/11/2019 - we have been able to successfully unblock our servers in Hong Kong, and our VPN is working well there currently. See: "Private Internet Access No…
The next great platform shift is underway, and that could be really bad for privacy
The first computing era was based on the keyboard. Mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers – they were all controlled using fingers typing out commands. Later on, the graphical front end of…
Beware the GHOST Protocol
UK internet users and internet users around the world need to beware of the GHOST protocol. The GCHQ, which is the United Kingdom’s (UK) equivalent of the American NSA, came…
Google says: “Privacy is paramount to us, in everything we do”; here’s why that can’t be true
Back in May Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed: the future is private". Now Google is joining in: Privacy is paramount to us, in everything we do. So today, we are announcing a…