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 […]
It’s not exactly “ideal” when a useful app gets banned or forcibly removed from the app store due to political posturing. Sadly, this is what is happening now with “Waze” in Iran. Due to Waze’s Israeli background and origins, Iran’s government wants to block it and prevent people in Iran from using it. Waze one […]
In past blog posts, we covered how aggressive Egypt is getting with censorship. So far, they’ve blocked some of the biggest websites like AlJazeera.net, TorProject.org, and Qatar TV, and they’ve even blocked VPNs in the process. Now, however, it looks like Egypt has gone full throttle and starting blocking VPNs at the source, by restricting […]
In Spain, the government does not allow the independence of Spanish regions if they do not follow the Spanish constitution. In the Catalan region of Spanish, the autonomous region of Catalonia attempted to bypass the constitution by instituting a referendum that would make it so the majority could force the independence of the region without […]
In Saudi Arabia, it’s common for services like Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype and other messaging services to be blocked. The reason being is that Saudi Arabia’s government wants complete control over these services, and due to some apps like WhatsApp that use encrypted communication (as well as Facebook Messenger with the feature enabled), it can be […]
Cuba like China and other censored countries, has locked down a large majority of internet and application services. Skype is blocked in Cuba, as well as dozens of other websites. A report from the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) found that 41 different websites are blocked in the country, and a large majority of […]
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