If You Have a Comcast Xfinity Router, You Need to Install a VPN (Now)
If you lease an Xfinity router from internet service provider (ISP) Comcast, you need to install a VPN as soon as possible. According to security researchers Karan Saini and Ryan…
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May 25: The General Data Protection Regulation takes effect today
It's May 25, and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect. It contains such a shocking amount of common sense, that companies worldwide have been scrambling in…
Switzerland holds referendum on Internet censorship — to protect domestic gambling
The Swiss Pirate Party reports that there is a Swiss referendum coming on June 10 to introduce Internet censorship for the first time. The purpose of the censorship is to…
The growing threat to privacy from big data forensics and false positives
The cost of sequencing the DNA found in genomes has been decreasingly rapidly in recent years. Since 2008, it has been falling even faster than the well-known Moore's Law for…
Your Cell Phone Carrier Is Selling Your Real-Time Location Data to Third Parties
All major cell phone carriers collect and sell their customers’ real-time location data to third-party advertisers, information disclosed in a recent court case has revealed. Krebs On Security even discovered…
Today, the Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality
Today, the United States Senate will vote on whether or not to save net neutrality. All 49 Senate Democrats, with the support of key Republican Senators, have successfully forced a Resolution of…
Crypto backdoors are in the news again, and as bad for privacy as ever
VPNs are an indispensable part of online life, and they protect many aspects of privacy. But there's a class of threats that VPNs can't defend against: crypto backdoors, which allow…
European Commission expands planned copyright auto-censorship machines to also include censorship of unwanted political opinions
The European Commission is expanding its plans for proposed automated censorship: from only having concerned copyright infringements, which is bad enough and cannot nearly be determined by a machine, the…
In China, workers’ brainwaves are now being monitored on the factory floor
In the next installment of "how bad can things get", Chinese factories are not content with monitoring their workers' communications and physical location, but have found it much more efficient…
The European Commission’s “Upload Censorship for Copyright” is already obsolete
As Julia Reda has continuously reported from inside the European Parliament, the European Commission is pushing for an update to copyright monopoly laws that would introduce upload-time censorship on copyright…