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One month from today, the UK reintroduces censorship. Here’s why you should be on the barricades.

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

From April, the United Kingdom formally reintroduces governmental censorship. It's supposed to be against pornography online, but there's no such thing when it comes to censorship; pornography is merely --…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

Our parents, at least in the Western world, had a right to hold private conversations face-to-face, whether out in public or in the sanctity of their home. This is all…

Categories: General Privacy News

Digital Rights Groups Cry Foul Over Canada’s ‘FairPlay’ Coalition and Pirate Site Blacklist

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Josiah Wilmoth

Digital rights groups are crying foul over Canada’s new “FairPlay” coalition aka the Bell Coalition, which is wielding its considerable corporate power to pressure the country’s telecommunications regulators to begin…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

Crazy new Swedish bill makes sharing music and TV as bad a “crime” as manslaughter (yes, really)

Updated on Feb 21, 2018 by Rick Falkvinge

A new crazy bill in front of the Swedish parliament makes ordinary sharing of TV, music, and movies as severe a "crime" as some types of homicide. The Swedish IT…

Categories: Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

Private Internet Access Desktop Client V77 Adds Debian, Arch Linux, Linux Mint Support, and More

Posted on Feb 20, 2018 by PIA Team

Today we released version 77 of the PIA desktop client for Windows, OS X, and Linux. You can get it on the Private Internet Access Downloads Page here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/downloads This…

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Swedish Public Healthcare Portal is sending your symptoms to Google

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Because of pure sloppiness in web design, the Swedish Public Healthcare portal is sending every single symptom and medication search to Google. The Swedish Public Healthcare portal 1177 -- named…

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Canada Bill C-59 Claims to Correct Privacy Abuses — It Actually Makes Them Much Worse

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Josiah Wilmoth

Canadian civil liberties advocates are sounding the alarm over government Bill C-59, a legislative act that purportedly corrects past intelligence-gathering and cyber-operations abuses but in actuality does quite the opposite.…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Swedish Police website hacked to mine cryptocurrency

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

One of the sites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency in the recent script-replacement hack was the website of the Swedish Police Force. This merits a more discussion; a lot more. As…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Private Internet Access now accepts anonymous Zcash shielded payments

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by PIA Team

Private Internet Access is now accepting Zcash shielded payments, providing users with enhanced protection of personal data when paying for our VPN services. This continues our long history of adopting…

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

For our analog parents, a diary or a personal letter could rarely be touched by authorities, not even by law enforcement searching for evidence of a crime. Objects such as…

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