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Worst known governmental leak ever is slowly coming to light: Agency moved nation’s secret data to “The Cloud”

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Sweden's Transport Agency moved all of its data to "the cloud", apparently unaware that there is no cloud, only somebody else's computer. In doing so, it exposed and leaked every…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Verizon Wireless is apparently now throttling Netflix and Youtube to 10Mbps

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Verizon Wireless users on the Verizon subreddit and Howard Forums have reported that YouTube and Netflix are being throttled to 10Mbps regardless of the speed you have paid for. If it…

Categories: General Privacy News

Putting together the pieces of the Chinese VPN jigsaw puzzle

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

VPNs are indispensable tools for today's Internet users, and nowhere more so than in China. The famous "Great Firewall of China" – the name given to the set of technologies…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

Trump Administration officially announces support for FCC net neutrality rollback

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Trump Administration has officially thrown its support behind the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) net neutrality rolback - the quest to destroy net neutrality rules in America. Even up until…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

In China, the government can censor the pics and memes you send to your friends via IM

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Chinese censorship has hit new dystopian levels. Internet censors in China are now able to delete an image sent from Party A to Party B, before the image makes it…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

UK government to force porn sites to perform compulsory age verification, but only for UK visitors, starting April 2018

Updated on Jul 22, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Digital Economy Law, which mandates compulsory age verifications on pornography sites and was passed in the United Kingdom (UK) last year, will officially be rolled out in April of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

EU copyright reform goes from bad to worse

Updated on Nov 18, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Privacy News Online has written a couple of times about the major review of copyright law currently underway in the European Union. It’s pretty bad: there are proposals to bring…

Categories: Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

IBM acquired millions of medical records for their “Watson” AI: an incredibly multifaceted privacy story

Updated on Jul 21, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

IBM acquired the detailed medical records of 61 million Italians, as reported on this site by Glyn Moody. This is a largely underreported story that doesn't not just need more…

Categories: General Privacy News

The mere existence of the Net Neutrality debate is a symptom of a much, much deeper rabbit hole

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The Internet had a Day of Action this past week in pointing out the necessity of Net Neutrality to governmental regulators. And yet, in arguing for governmental intervention, the bigger…

Categories: General Privacy News

Australian Prime Minister Turnbull: The laws of mathematics don’t apply in Australia

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Australia's Prime Minister Michael Turnbull doesn't believe in the laws of mathematics - a troubling sign for a world leader to say the least. Australia's leader spoke the infamous words…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments
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