China’s new Cyber-security Law will come into effect on June 1st, and may very well end up shaking the whole Chinese internet sphere, with online censorship rising to unprecedented levels. China is known to exert one of the world’s most severe censorship on its citizens, specifically online, and the Cyber Administration of China (CAC) is […]
TorGuard VPN’s app has become more and more powerful as the years have gone by. We’ve put good effort into developing the app to be robust, while still easy to use. It has plenty of features for power users, but the accessibility of the app is still present. Sure, you can just load up the TorGuard […]
In 2017, we’ve seen a ton of new developments impact the internet space. A lot of these changes are quite frankly bad, since they negatively impact user privacy at large. In Australia, we’ve seen large-scale metadata collection, in Russia we’ve seen massive internet censorship, and in China and Korea websites are completely banned. In the […]
Theresa May is a British politician that serves the Prime Minister in the UK. Now, she just might be the usher of a 1984 Big Brother reality in the UK. May plans to introduce a new wave of regulations upon the UK like the world has never seen. This regulations directly affect how the internet […]
The last twelve months has been an historic time for cryptocurrency. In December of 2016, Bitcoin really started to boom as the price hit $1000. During the next few months, Bitcoin REALLY took off and at the time of this writing it sits around $1900–higher than it’s ever been, and growing still. Other cryptos like […]
With online censorship being all the rage in 2017, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has set in effect a country wide ban against popularly used email services and search engines. This decree was posted late on Monday, banning networks like VK and Odnoklassniki, the email service Mail.ru, as well as the search engine, Yandex. These websites […]
Thai authorities, known as the military junta, have been known to increase internet censorship since it accessed power in May 2014. They recently requested that Facebook remove 131 posts from its network, or face legal action. They made the request through the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. According to local authorities, the content of the […]
It’s starting to feel more and more like an Orwellian nightmare in Turkey as local authorities have blocked access to Wikipedia after the hugely popular online Encyclopedia refused to remove content suggesting Turkey was in cooperation with “terror groups”, according to official sources. On Saturday, the Turkish government blocked access to all content of the online […]
Online privacy is getting more and more important in 2017, and here at TorGuard we’ve seen a HUGE uptick in VPN users. The reason is that in the USA, internet service providers can now collect and sell data without user consent. In the UK, new laws and regulations are moving forward that are also compromising […]
The UK government is soliciting feedback from a handful of internet providers, but isn’t consulting the tech industry or the public. The proposed measures would greatly benefit hackers and cyber criminals, as the UK government is secretly planning to push greater surveillance powers that would force UK internet providers to monitor communications in near-real-time and companies […]
For a long time, The Kremlin underestimated the Internet’s political and social power, and didn’t bother trying to control it. Yet, now worried by Twitter and Facebook’s potential for mobilization, especially after the Arab Spring and the strong protests against Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2011, the authorities are searching for a solution to the “Internet problem”. […]
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