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Toronto, Canada is now using phone location data to track if people are congregating

Posted on Mar 25, 2020 by Caleb Chen

This past Monday, Toronto Mayor Tory announced at a virtual TechTO meetup that the government has been receiving location data from wireless carriers and telecommunication companies in the area to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Tell your House Representative to vote against letting the FBI access internet history without a warrant

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Patriot Act is up for renewal with the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act and this bill as-is allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The coming Pakistan VPN ban: PTA sets deadline for VPN users to register by June 30th

Posted on Jun 11, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has issued a reminder that all VPN users need to register their VPN tunnel with their internet service provider (ISP) by June 30th, 2020. This…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

These are the 37 Senators that voted to let the FBI seize your internet history without a warrant

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A key amendment to the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020 (H.R. 6172) that would have required authorities to obtain a warrant before gaining access to American internet browsing and…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Keeping your digital footprint clean during quarantine

Posted on Apr 29, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Right now the news is being flooded by articles highlighting the importance and efficacy of physical sanitation habits. Tips that you’ve undoubtedly heard an inundating number of times by now…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides, VPN

Coronavirus delays the passage of the world’s most important new privacy law

Posted on Mar 26, 2020 by Glyn Moody

For obvious and justified reasons, the coronavirus pandemic dominates the news currently. One of the latest developments is that India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has put his entire country on…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Media freedom activists have built a 125 million block library in a Minecraft map called the “Uncensored Library” which contains a world’s worth of information and is available to read…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Freedom of speech, surveillance and privacy in the time of coronavirus

Posted on Feb 21, 2020 by Glyn Moody

The situation concerning the Covid-19 coronavirus is serious, although it is not yet clear whether it will develop into a pandemic affecting billions of people worldwide. The story so far…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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