Coming April 2018 in the UK, adult websites will be required by law to verify the ages of British visitors. This invasive verification could be in the form of a driving license, passport, or recognizable ID document that would have to be uploaded or scanned to the adult website in question. If an ID is […]
While countries like Iran, Egypt, and Russia have seen some serious censorship problems with riots and heavy political unrest in the last year, nothing can compare to China. China has the strongest censorship regime in the world, blocking millions of active internet users from accessing popular websites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and thousands of other websites […]
After years of manual censorship to combat illegal and explicit content, Indonesia has finally managed to scrape together a multi-million super-AI to take control of the internet to make it “safe”. The new Indonesian internet machine reportedly cost $14 million to develop, and it uses machine learning and an AI to crawl the internet and […]
In intense political situations around the world, it’s becoming more and more common to block access to the internet to prevent government opposition. We see it daily in China, where a large majority of websites are blocked as well as services to prevent citizens from not only voicing their opinions, but spreading them as well. […]
Net Neutrality is now a thing of the past, at least for now. This “Obama-era” regulation that protected the rights of internet consumers in the US has been repealed by the Federal Communications Commission. It’s taking away a law that protected rights of consumers in the United States and giving back power to companies that […]
Earlier this year we covered Apple’s swift and compliant response to the Chinese government to remove VPNs from the App store. Now, Apple is doing even more to remain in the good graces of the Chinese government by removing even more apps that are violating local Chinese laws. It’s now becoming common to see China […]
Across the world, internet freedom is getting more and more censored. Internet censorship largely started as far back as a decade ago with China and Russia leading the way, but censorship now continues to spread onward like a plague. Last year we discussed the growth of worldwide censorship, but this year the trend continues with […]
In Italy a new law has finally been approved for massive data retention. The law requires that all forms of telephone traffic and all forms of electronic communication and traffic be stored for 6 years. Not only that, but the law also introduces changes to how web monitoring works without prior judicial review. The goal […]
This Wednesday, a new law comes into effect allowing the Russian Kremlin government to control what Russians can and cannot access online. The only way to access the totality of the internet in the coming future is with a VPN that doesn’t comply with the Russian government, like TorGuard. The new Russian law is the […]
In China surveillance is like an evolving organism. At first, it started small, but now it’s growing bigger and bigger, getting more powerful every day to combat crime and terrorism. However, as we’ve seen numerous times this year alone, the Chinese government doesn’t always make the best decisions when it comes to deciding who’s guilty […]
Recently, the Indonesian Ministry of Communication just announced that they have a new form of censorship tech that will let them automate censorship in Indonesia. Previously, the Ministry had to manually input each website to be blocked. The Indonesian censorship blockade already includes over 800,000 websites that are blocked that mostly fall under a few […]
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