The Pirate Bay Returns And China Filters VPNs
Two unrelated things coincide: The return of The Pirate Bay on one hand, and China banning VPNs on the other - actually, not banning them per se, but aggressively filtering…
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Electric vehicles are sending real-time location and diagnostic data to Chinese government monitoring centers
A couple of months ago, this blog noted how modern vehicles are constantly producing large quantities of data, which has important implications for privacy. An Associated Press article published in…
As privacy problems continue to pile up for DNA databases, Covid-19 introduces a major new risk
Two years ago, Privacy News Online warned that the growing number of large-scale DNA databases were likely to become a serious threat to people's privacy. Sadly, things have not improved…
Why the Chinese love clunky QR codes, despite privacy and security shortcomings
As you may have noticed, there's a lot of interest in bitcoin at the moment. According to one analysis, a key factor driving the digital currency to record highs is…
The next big privacy battles: cross-border data flows and data localization
A couple of weeks ago, this blog looked at a rather unexpected consequence of the decision by the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU),…
Welcome to the burgeoning, globalized business of implementing government surveillance
That fact that massive surveillance is taking place around the world is hardly a secret, not least since Edward Snowden revealed the extraordinary scale and reach of Western spying. But…
Putting together the pieces of the Chinese VPN jigsaw puzzle
VPNs are indispensable tools for today's Internet users, and nowhere more so than in China. The famous "Great Firewall of China" – the name given to the set of technologies…
Welcome to the quantum Internet, with privacy guaranteed by the laws of physics
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…
Apple removes VPN apps from the Chinese App Store on government orders
Today, Chinese iPhone users woke up to discover that censorship-defeating apps such as the Private Internet Access VPN app are no longer present in the Chinese Apple App store. The move…
The Russia VPN ban doesn’t forbid personal or business use of VPNs at all
Putin has signed a new law that increases internet censorship dramatically and has been marked as the beginning of the Russia VPN ban, but does the new law actually ban…