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Starting Sunday, TikTok and WeChat banned in US: American users will need a VPN

Updated on Sep 21, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The United States government has officially banned TikTok and WeChat from American phones, citing national security concerns. Starting Sunday, September the 20th, TikTok and WeChat will no longer be allowed…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, VPN

Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal

Updated on Sep 17, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Privacy flaws in contact discovery have led to a research team being able to enumerate all American Signal users. Enumeration means that using the contact discovery built into the Signal…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Latest developments in the long-running and crucial Schrems vs. Facebook GDPR privacy battle

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Back in July, this blog reported on a major victory for the privacy campaigner Max Schrems at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU). Following that win, the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

AT&T to offer ad supported phone plans where you give up privacy for $5 to $10

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Caleb Chen

AT&T is planning to offer ad-supported phone plans within a year, according to an exclusive interview that AT&T CEO John Stankey had with Reuters. For those that are keeping track…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

SaveOnlineFreeSpeech.org lets you comment against Trump’s “Censor the Internet” executive order

Updated on Sep 17, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Fight for the Future has unveiled a new website and campaign to Save Free Speech Online: SaveOnlineFreeSpeech.org. The website helps you make a comment on the public record against President…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Welcome to the quantum Internet, with privacy guaranteed by the laws of physics

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Glyn Moody

Quantum computing is gradually moving from the realm of science – and even science fiction – to become a practical technology that is being used in real-life contexts. Three years…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

UN human rights experts condemn China’s new national security law for Hong Kong

Posted on Sep 10, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Human rights experts from the United Nations have published a 14-page letter which was sent to China in which they lay out their concerns that China is violating international human…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

PIA’s NextGen VPN network is a huge deal, update to try it out now

Updated on Aug 28, 2022 by Private Internet Access

The Private Internet Access Next Generation Network is online and functional, but you need to be using the latest version of the PIA client on your device to take full…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News, Guides, VPN

Freedom of expression hangs in the balance at Julian Assange’s extradition hearing

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Julian Assange, the editor and founder of WikiLeaks, will be taken into a London courtroom on Monday for a hearing which will determine whether he will be extradited to the…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Federal appeals court finds the NSA’s mass surveillance of American phone records was illegal

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has just ruled that the “NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was illegal.” For years, the NSA has conducted…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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