The Indian government has announced a new data collection directive, No. 20(3)/2022-CERT-In, which goes into effect on June 27, 2022. The legislation forces data-handling companies, including VPNs, to collect customers’…
Three main bodies of the EU — the European Commission, European Council, and European Parliament — have reached a "political agreement" on the Digital Services Act (DSA). The new law…
Mental health apps have been in demand for a while now, but since the pandemic, their popularity grew by over 500%. I downloaded and used a few myself — mainly…
Digital surveillance comes in many forms. The traditional kind, where governments spy on you as you move around the Internet, is the easiest to take measures against. A good VPN…
My career is about to take off — at least it is if I was to believe the number of companies looking at my LinkedIn profile over the past few…
Government attempts to weaken cryptography to allow general surveillance are not new: they date back at least to the 1993 Clipper chip. Similarly, claims that children will be harmed by…
I recently wrote about constructing a fake persona to hide your identity online. I’ll admit that for most people, it’s a lot of trouble to go through. In most cases,…
If you've ever done something super sneaky and prayed that no one would ever find out, you're in a similar position to Edward Snowden when he leaked highly classified information…
VPNs based in the United States frequently get unwarranted criticism, claiming that, by nature of them being based in the US, they are somehow “less secure” or “less private” than VPNs based…
A couple of months ago, this blog wrote about Apple's Expanded Protections for Children, which turned out to mean client-side scanning (CSS). That is, code on your smartphone would be…