Canada is celebrating a net neutrality win with Telecom Regulatory Policy 2017-104. Zero rating, the act of having some apps or services not count towards a users' internet data cap,…
Russia will soon see a new bill before the Duma that aims to ban VPNs and proxies that do not comply with the Roskamnadzor, Russia's online censorship machine. Though the bill…
Twitter has reportedly agreed to comply with Russia's Big Brother law - which forces tech companies to store data on Russian soil. Russia's Big Brother laws, passed in July of…
A new EU agreement could mean WhatsApp user data is shared with Facebook, despite user protest over privacy incursions. The new deal amends WhatsApp’s relationship to Facebook in what would…
Censorship in Russia may soon be aided by the very websites and services often used to bypass it. Russia censors its Internet through the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere…
The Jammu and Kashmir region of India at the tumultuous border between India and Pakistan formally lost internet access on April 17th, 2017 (again). The most recent spat of internet bans…
Last week, Australia's law mandating telecommunications data retention went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe's abysmal 10-year failure with this exact law before it…
New US regulations ban laptops on board some aircraft, requiring laptops to be in checked luggage. One of the first things you learn in information security is that if an…
Now that Australia's mandatory metadata retention regime is officially started, many are wondering how we got to this point and what we can do to stay private now that every…
April 13th, 2017 is now "National Get a VPN" Day for the entire country of Australia. In March 2015, Australia passed the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill (info).…