Tag: egypt
  • Mar 17, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Drawing the Line: Are Smart Cities Compatible with Human Rights and Privacy?

PIA blog followed Google’s Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto for some years, until the plan to create a futuristic smart city was dropped in 2020. The principal problem with the project was privacy. A Guardian article quotes Jim Balsillie, co-founder of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, as saying that the project was “a colonizing experiment … Continue reading “Drawing the Line: Are Smart Cities Compatible with Human Rights and Privacy?”

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  • Mar 24, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship

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 for users within oppressive regimes that otherwise censor such information. This massive digital library was unveiled for the World Day against Censorship by the organization … Continue reading “Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship”

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  • Apr 25, 2017 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, VPN,

Interest in VPN hits all time high as Egypt blocks VoIP apps like Skype, Facetime, Viber, WhatsApp, and even Messenger

Voice over IP (VoIP) apps such as Facetime, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, and Messenger have been all but unusable from Egypt for the last few days. The recent wave of VoIP app blocks is pushing more and more Egyptians to use VPN – inevitably, VPN is now a trending search for Egypt region mobile app stores and … Continue reading “Interest in VPN hits all time high as Egypt blocks VoIP apps like Skype, Facetime, Viber, WhatsApp, and even Messenger”

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  • Dec 20, 2016 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN,

Egyptians forced to use a VPN to access encrypted messaging app Signal

Encrypted messaging just took a blow in Egypt. Since this past weekend, many internet users with an Egyptian IP address are no longer able to send or receive messages or calls using Signal. Users in Egypt have been reporting connectivity issues with Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app, since last weekend. There has been no … Continue reading “Egyptians forced to use a VPN to access encrypted messaging app Signal”

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