This past Wednesday, the Netherlands Senate passed a new surveillance and data mining law that will go into effect on January 1st, 2018. The new law (available in Dutch) expands the…
As regular readers of this blog will have noticed, one of the hottest topics in the world of online privacy is government access to communications. Essentially, the authorities want to…
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that China was in the process of blocking VPN in China by February 1st, 2018. Inside sources told Bloomberg that state-owned internet service providers (ISPs)…
Tomorrow, on July 12th, the Internet will commemorate a Net Neutrality Day of Action to stand up for net neutrality in the United States. Net Neutrality is the idea that…
The Great Firewall of China is being bolstered in the coming months - increasing censorship for over a billion internet users. According to Bloomberg, the Chinese government has told state-owned…
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which sets standards for the Web, has released what it calls a "disposition of comments", designed to address objections to the controversial Encrypted Media…
Police already have access to visors with built-in face recognition and fugitive spotting. The technology was in prototype stage a few years ago, and was successfully tested when police officers…
Three, one of the United Kingdom's (UK) largest telecom and internet service providers (ISP), recently announced a new plan which zero-rates and gives access to unlimited Netflix. Essentially, streaming from…
Back in May, Privacy News Online noted that the legal basis of a data-sharing agreement between Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was suspected to…
Per its terms and conditions, YOU Broadband, the fifth largest Indian internet service provider (ISP), doesn't let its subscribers use strong encryption. The ISP does technically allow VPN and encryption…