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…
General Privacy News
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…
Trump Administration seeks to permanently restore NSA program to spy on Americans
The Trump Administration supports the permanent restoration of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allowed the National Security Administration (NSA) to collect the phone records of American citizens as…
President Trump wants to use an executive order to make the FCC and FTC police social media censorship
President Trump has a plan to involve the FTC and FCC in policing censorship by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Earlier in August, CNN’s Brian Fung reported…
To end HK protests, the government plans to force ISPs to block apps used by protesters
The Hong Kong government has drawn up plans to use executive orders to force internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict certain applications in Hong Kong as a way to disrupt…