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Equifax, yet another catastrophic leak: the old world can’t get away with this stuff anymore

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

Equifax leaks 143 million social security numbers, and the tech world stands jawdropped, while the mainstream press treats it as a sideline note. This treatment of security on the sidelines…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

A computer tells your government you’re 91% gay. Now what?

Updated on Sep 9, 2017 by Rick Falkvinge

A fascinating and horrifying new AI algorithm is able to predict your sexual orientation with 91% accuracy from five photographs of your face. According to the researchers, the human brain…

Categories: General Privacy News

Malaysia blocked Steam because of a single game, those trying to play it will need a VPN

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Malaysia temporarily blocked Valve's popular gaming engine, Steam, across the entire country on September 8th, 2017 over a 2D brawler called Fight of the Gods. The Malaysian government had given…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

There’s currently a politically motivated internet shutdown in the small African country of Togo

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Togo's netizens are currently in the midst of an internet shutdown. Internet and mobile SMS service in the small African country of Togo has been shut down as of September…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

US leads UK in VPN use and some security awareness, according to survey

Updated on Jul 19, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A recent security study shows VPN use on the rise in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Wombat Security surveyed roughly 1,000 adults in the United States and…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

Even encrypted data streams from the Internet of Things are leaking sensitive information; here’s what we can do

Updated on Aug 5, 2020 by Glyn Moody

As the Internet of Things (IoT) begins to enter the mainstream, concerns about the impact such "smart" devices will have on users' privacy are growing. Many of the problems are…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Your local supermarket may soon be as scary as Google or Facebook

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

What if there were no prices on anything in your local supermarket, because everything in the entire selection was priced individually just for you, and the food prices would vary…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

Is this the key to foiling phishing attacks? Spoiler alert: probably

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Glyn Moody

As readers of this blog know, VPNs are a great way to protect your privacy and security. But they address only some of the online threats we all face every…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Sweden doubles down on data retention surveillance, includes VPN surveillance in new leaked proposal

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

The Swedish government is doubling down on the court-banned and hated data retention surveillance. As a Western first, they're also planning to introduce VPN surveillance, taking a page out of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance, VPN

A comparison of two very different European privacy cultures

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

I recently moved from Stockholm, Sweden to Berlin, Germany. It is quite illustrative to see how different these privacy cultures are, and in particular, the expectations from authorities on both…

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