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General Privacy News

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (16/21): Our children’s privacy and Data Retention

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

In the analog world of our parents, it was absolutely unthinkable that the government would demand to know every footstep you took, every phonecall you made, and every message you…

Categories: General Privacy News

The real Strava heatmap story is no threats to national security, but about privacy and de-anonymization

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

At the end of January, Nathan Ruser posted a tweet about Strava, a Website and mobile app used to track athletic activity via GPS coordinates. It concerned Strava's global heatmap:…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

UK Court Delivers Blow to Mass Surveillance State, Win for Privacy Advocates

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Josiah Wilmoth

A UK court has dealt a winning hand to privacy advocates -- and a blow to the mass surveillance state -- through its ruling on the controversial Data Retention and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (15/21): Our digital children’s conversations are muted on a per-topic basis

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

At worst, our analog parents could be prevented from meeting each other. Our digital children are prevented from talking about particular subjects, once the conversation is already happening. This is…

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (14/21): Our analog parents’ dating preferences weren’t tracked, recorded, and catalogued

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

Our analog parents' dating preferences were considered a most private of matters. For our digital children, their dating preferences is a wholesale harvesting opportunity for marketing purposes. How did this…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Private Internet Access Celebrates Data Privacy Day 2018

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Christel Dahlskjaer

Today is Data Privacy Day, an initiative that seeks to raise awareness of the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. It also brings privacy professionals together globally…

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

We've seen how our digital children's privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would have balked at. But even worse:…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Private Internet Access is proud to be supporting the WireGuard project

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Christel Dahlskjaer

WireGuard has been hailed as one of the most exciting developments within crypto-networking in recent times, and while we may not be the first to adopt the new protocol, we…

Categories: General Privacy News

We Are Removing Our South Korea Presence

Updated on Feb 20, 2018 by PIA Team

On the 21st January 2018 at 6.15pm Pacific Time, Private Internet Access was alerted by close contacts in South Korea that law enforcement would be seeking to mirror our servers…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News, Governments

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to the fact that we're tracked when…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance
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