Posts about Privacy

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Concerned about online privacy? Here's five US politicians to keep an eye-on in 2014

Posted on December 24, 2013

Last year we rounded-up a selection of the most anti-online privacy politicians in the US, followed by a similar round-up focusing on the UK. Since then Edward Snowden’s PRISM revelations have had a huge impact on the political landscape and have revealed a broad church of politicians who have allied themselves with perhaps the most pervasive spying programme in history.

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Will Europeans really be set free from data retention?

Posted on December 15, 2013

It appears the EU Data Retention Directive will soon be scrapped. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice General, Pedro Cruz Villalon, said the highly controversial law contravenes the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

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Five reasons why UK politicians hate the internet

Posted on November 30, 2013

The World Wide Web may have been created by a Brit but in the last 15 years the UK government has shown nothing but disdain for online liberties and online privacy. In fact, out of all western nations, we reckon the UK is probably the most draconian and heavy handed in its approach to managing and controlling its own citizens in the online space, and - unlike the US’ PRISM program - most of this has been done out in the open.

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European Parliament: "EU surveillance programmes are incompatible with fundamental human rights of citizens and residents in the EU"

Posted on November 15, 2013

A European Parliament report on state surveillance says current programmes are “incompatible” with the human rights of EU residents and all state surveillance must be framed “in terms of collective freedoms and democracy,” rather than “data protection and national security.

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IVPN launches new in-depth online privacy guides

Posted on November 7, 2013

Given the constant attacks on online privacy, from both government agencies and corporate interests, the practice of keeping your data private and secure has never been more relevant nor more important. However, the online privacy landscape can often look incredibly arcane and complicated to outsiders.

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VPN privacy policies decoded: VyprVPN

Posted on October 23, 2013

This post is part of a series reviewing the privacy policies of popular VPN services. The aim is to find out whether the VPN takes customer privacy seriously. This is not intended as a review of a VPN service, which would need to take into account a number of other factors.

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Top threats to online privacy 2013

Posted on September 28, 2013

The likes of SOPA, ACTA and CISPA may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean there still aren’t a number of legislative threats against online privacy looming on the horizon. From the Trans Pacific Partnership, to the UK’s impending porn filter, Western governments are continuing to try and curtail internet freedoms.

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The Onion Router under fire

Posted on September 18, 2013

Anonymity tool The Onion Router (TOR) has had a pretty rough few months, following confirmation that the FBI used an security flaw in the Tor Browser Bundle to install malware on its users’ computers. Despite offering our own privacy platform we’re big supporters of TOR and think it’s generally a secure platform to use (you can take a look at some of our guides on TOR right here).