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Politicians, about to vote in favor of mandatory upload filtering in Europe, get channel deleted by YouTube’s upload filtering

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

French politicians of the former Front National are furious: their entire YouTube channel was just taken down by automatic filters at YouTube for alleged copyright violations. Perhaps this will cause…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

DEAD – An attack vector on web services, due to e-mail’s faults due to DNS

Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by rasengan

Domain Emails Are Dead (DEAD) A security reminder that e-mail and DNS should never be a critical component of a secure system architecture. PROBLEM DEAD is a potential vulnerability in…

Categories: General Privacy News

America has killed Net Neutrality; Why you need a VPN service

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The FCC officially ended net neutrality protections on June 11th, 2018. Net neutrality was established when internet service providers were designated as Title II utility providers in 20xx. Under net…

Categories: General Privacy News, VPN

French president Macron pushing for pre-election censorship of all news articles to combat “fake news”

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

French president Macron, in an attempt to have the Power of Narrative stay with the offline-born old guard, is pushing a law that will reintroduce regular news censorship -- even in…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Swiss vote overwhelmingly in FAVOR of Internet censorship in June 10 gambling referendum

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The Swiss have held their referendum on foreign online gambling, and voted overwhelmingly in favor of Internet censorship. With 73% in favor of censorship, it's likely that people voted "against…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Julia Reda sounds the alarm: Two weeks until Censorship Machine vote in the European Parliament

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Julia Reda sounds the alarm that the European Parliament will vote on mandatory upload filtering in two weeks, with nowhere near enough attention to this issue from the public at…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

Apple could have years of your internet browsing history; won’t necessarily give it to you

Updated on Nov 18, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Apple has years of your internet browsing history if you selected "sync browser tabs" in Safari. This internet history does not disappear from their servers when you click "Clear internet…

Categories: General Privacy News

FOSTA-SESTA is now law—where does that leave the Internet?

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Miles McCain

Though FOSTA-SESTA was signed into law just over one month ago, its impact on the Internet is already visible. The bill was meant to curb online sex trafficking. In reality,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

In China’s footsteps: Amazon and US schools normalize automatic facial recognition and constant surveillance

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Amazon has developed a powerful cloud-based facial recognition system called "Rekognition", which has major implications for privacy. It is already being used by multiple US police forces to carry out…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

If You Have a Comcast Xfinity Router, You Need to Install a VPN (Now)

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Josiah Wilmoth

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…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance, VPN
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