The Fappening – Who Was At Fault? Everybody, Especially The NSA
It's now been 48 hours since the biggest leak of private nude photos of celebrities in history, an event dubbed "The Fappening". Details are starting to appear about what had…
General Privacy News
Privacy, Like Vaccination, Is Primarily A Collective Benefit – Not An Individual One
Privacy isn't there for the purpose of protecting people who want to do wrong. Privacy is a more than a random civil right: it is a safeguard in a democratic…
The “Yo” App Demonstrates How Metadata Is Private Data
An app that sends "Yo!" to your friends. That's all it does. Hacked up in eight hours, in the top-five apps, valued at 10 million dollars. What's interesting is that…
Why A “Right To Be Forgotten” Is Really Really Bad For Privacy
The European Court of Justice has famously ruled that Google must abide by a new "Right To Be Forgotten" and stop showing links to stories on request from the people…
Privacy And The Electric Monk
Many believe several contradictory things about privacy. If we could figure out why this is, we could solve a lot of problems with governments disrespecting fundamental civil liberties, and worse,…
About the PIA Client Security and VPN Security in General
There's been much discussion recently about the security of PIA's VPN services in particular and of VPN as a technology in general. This post should help both put our customers'…
When Privacy Of Information Transport Was Attacked 70 Years Ago
The privacy of how you receive information is just as sensitive, and just as fragile, as the information itself. This may seem counterintuitive, but there are several examples to prove…
First Rule Of Censorship Club Is You Don’t Talk About Censorship Club
So it's happened again. Every time law enforcement anywhere gets the ability to censor websites, it always gets applied overbroadly, way beyond the original prescribed scope, and each and every…
Is Europe Fracturing With Respect To Respect For Privacy?
Last decade, all of Europe was marching in lockstep toward surveillance nightmare societies. This decade, that has changed, and some states in Europe (Germany et al) are choosing to restore…
Outdated Privacy Laws Were Written In Age Of 24-Shot Chemical Film Rolls
The privacy laws of today are terribly outdated. They make assumptions about people's observation-and-documentation capability that are no longer valid, and at the same time, what was once strongly protected…