For the first time, a telecommunications provider is having opinions on the content of your conversations. This is unprecedented and a sharp deviation from all previous history. How long until…
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The third largest breach ever in Finland happened yesterday. Passwords were stored in plaintext. At T-Mobile Austria, they explain that of course they store the password in plaintext, but they…
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Brazil’s internet service providers (ISPs) earn failing grades on data privacy, researchers say. Earlier this month, Brazilian independent research center InternetLab -- in partnership with the Electronic Frontier Foundation --…
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Internet service providers (ISPs) in Finland have begun blocking access to websites on a government-curated blacklist. According to English-language Finnish news service Metropolitan.fi, the initiative is the product of a…
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In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has been completely eliminated for our children,…
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People have finally woken up to what happened with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and the massive personality databases that were built. The problem is, nobody's learning anything for the future,…
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Slack has just updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been shocked and horrified at the…
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It was with a great deal of excitement that I was able to announce here on this blog that Private Internet Access would be releasing the source code for our client-side…
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Private Internet Access believes that internet was built with free speech as a cornerstone. When these foundations are weakened by attacks such as SESTA-FOSTA, Private Internet Access feels the weight…
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House Republicans voted Thursday to pass a $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page spending bill. The bill was rushed through so quickly that -- quite conveniently -- no one actually had time to…
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