As this blog has noted, for all its faults, the European Union's GDPR represents one of the most important attempts to protect digital privacy. Although it concerns the EU and…
The United Kingdom (UK) is banning telecommunications companies from using Huawei 5G equipment. Following sanctions put on Huawei by the United States, United Kingdom Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the…
The Hong Kong VPN exit node will return as a geo-located region. Denver, CO, July 14th 2020 -- Effective immediately, Private Internet Access (PIA) is wiping and shutting down our…
A new law being proposed in Germany would see all 19 federal state intelligence agencies in Germany granted the power to spy on German citizens through the use of trojans.…
The world's attention is rightly focused on the terrible new National Security Law in Hong Kong. But, as ever, there are bad things happening to human rights elsewhere as well.…
As China takes over Hong Kong with a new national security law, Hongkongers prepare by cleaning up their social media presence. Before, under the now demolished “one country, two systems”…
A new anti-encryption bill proposed by Senator Graham will face a key vote this week, and activists are working to make sure that the bill does not pass. The bill…
A new privacy feature in iOS 14 has revealed that TikTok is copying the contents of your clipboard with every keystroke. The new feature - called paste notifications - shows…
BlueKai, a company bought by Oracle in 2014, has leaked. The database of internet activity records was left on the open web in an unsecured server. The leaked data was…
Privacy is one of the key concerns of people using digital technology. Of course, this blog has been warning about threats in this area for years, but it's common now…