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Crazy new Swedish bill makes sharing music and TV as bad a “crime” as manslaughter (yes, really)

Updated on Feb 21, 2018 by Rick Falkvinge

A new crazy bill in front of the Swedish parliament makes ordinary sharing of TV, music, and movies as severe a "crime" as some types of homicide. The Swedish IT…

Categories: Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

Private Internet Access Desktop Client V77 Adds Debian, Arch Linux, Linux Mint Support, and More

Posted on Feb 20, 2018 by PIA Team

Today we released version 77 of the PIA desktop client for Windows, OS X, and Linux. You can get it on the Private Internet Access Downloads Page here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/downloads This…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News

Swedish Public Healthcare Portal is sending your symptoms to Google

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Because of pure sloppiness in web design, the Swedish Public Healthcare portal is sending every single symptom and medication search to Google. The Swedish Public Healthcare portal 1177 -- named…

Categories: General Privacy News

Canada Bill C-59 Claims to Correct Privacy Abuses — It Actually Makes Them Much Worse

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Josiah Wilmoth

Canadian civil liberties advocates are sounding the alarm over government Bill C-59, a legislative act that purportedly corrects past intelligence-gathering and cyber-operations abuses but in actuality does quite the opposite.…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Swedish Police website hacked to mine cryptocurrency

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

One of the sites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency in the recent script-replacement hack was the website of the Swedish Police Force. This merits a more discussion; a lot more. As…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Private Internet Access now accepts anonymous Zcash shielded payments

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by PIA Team

Private Internet Access is now accepting Zcash shielded payments, providing users with enhanced protection of personal data when paying for our VPN services. This continues our long history of adopting…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

For our analog parents, a diary or a personal letter could rarely be touched by authorities, not even by law enforcement searching for evidence of a crime. Objects such as…

Categories: General Privacy News

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (16/21): Our children’s privacy and Data Retention

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 by Rick Falkvinge

In the analog world of our parents, it was absolutely unthinkable that the government would demand to know every footstep you took, every phonecall you made, and every message you…

Categories: General Privacy News

The real Strava heatmap story is no threats to national security, but about privacy and de-anonymization

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

At the end of January, Nathan Ruser posted a tweet about Strava, a Website and mobile app used to track athletic activity via GPS coordinates. It concerned Strava's global heatmap:…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

UK Court Delivers Blow to Mass Surveillance State, Win for Privacy Advocates

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Josiah Wilmoth

A UK court has dealt a winning hand to privacy advocates -- and a blow to the mass surveillance state -- through its ruling on the controversial Data Retention and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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