Governments Collecting Your Personal Information
A few days ago the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board issued an assessment stating that although the current executive agreed with a year-old study finding tremendous faults with governmental cyber intrusion, it just wasn’t going to do much about it. This assessment marks the six month and one-year anniversaries of two other reports it […]
Continue Reading...How Much Is Your Information Worth
Every time a new medium for information is found, you can bet that it will only be a short time before someone figures out how to monetize it. Shortly after that, the marketers come in to figure out how to make the monetizing more efficient. Such is the case of the Internet from the first […]
Continue Reading...British Government Cracking Down On Encryption
With more and more governments jumping on the Big Brother Bandwagon, it’s has become vital to increase your options for secure browsing whether you’re sitting at home, visiting a friend or traveling abroad. This week ArsTechnica reported (story here) that the British Government had taken an administrative stance that aimed to backdoor any and all […]
Continue Reading...Netflix Says No VPN Problem Here
Internet video streaming service providers are backing away from criticism that has been leveled against them in the search for better and more secure access. Providers such as Netflix and Hulu (among others) have in the past blocked IP addresses that have come from non-U.S. servers with the explanation that they didn’t have rights to […]
Continue Reading...Country Based Internet Restrictions & VPN Service
It doesn’t take a security expert to know that if most governments had their way with the Internet, your privacy would be a thing of the past. From the FBI and NSA trying to creep on your online presence to domestic or multinational companies stockpiling your purchasing history to foreign governments shutting down websites and […]
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