Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 13, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of November 13th, 2020 EU continues to push for lawful access (aka backdoors) to end-to-end encrypted data A draft resolution by the Council of the European Union has highlighted that the EU is moving towards mandating encryption backdoors in platforms like Signal and WhatsApp – but God forbid they … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 13, 2020”

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  • Jan 16, 2017
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

President Duterte has banned porn in the Philippines; Filipinos now need to unblock porn websites

Internet users in the Philippines are now being forced by their government to use technological means to unblock porn. The South East Asian country is the latest to ban the world’s biggest legal porn websites, following in the steps of the UAE and Russia. Major porn sites such as Pornhub and Xvideos have been blocked by the government as … Continue reading “President Duterte has banned porn in the Philippines; Filipinos now need to unblock porn websites”

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  • Sep 15, 2016
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Russia blocks two top porn sites

Pornhub.com and Youporn.com, two of the largest porn websites in the world, are now blocked for Russian internet users. The block order comes from the Roskomnadzor, or Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media. All of Russia’s internet service providers (ISPs) have 24 hours to comply. Last year, the Roskomnadzor … Continue reading “Russia blocks two top porn sites”

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