On March 27th 2019, TorGuard was sent an official request from the ROSKOMNADZOR, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in Sphere of Communications Information Technology and Mass Media—asking that we cooperate with Russian authorities and block websites on demand, according to state approved country-wide blacklists for Russian users. At the time of this writing TorGuard has […]
It is now certain that Article 13 will now pass into law. The European Parliament voted to pass the legislation by 348 votes to 274. Article 13 gives governments in the European Union the ability police content on the internet for anything that violates copyright law. However, the law makes the websites and companies themselves […]
If most of the past Russian laws for online censorship were shotgun blasts, the newest Russian law is an “internet censorship nuke”. And it looks like the nuke has just landed. From now on, the Russian government can make it a crime to “disrespect” the state on the internet. This law is put into effect […]
From a global perspective, censorship looks different depending on the country you are in. In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States of America, restrictions are only placed on torrents, but in North Korea, people are prohibited access to political media, pornography, social media, and torrents. While Belarus, China, Cuba, South Korea, […]
Cryptocurrency is moving along fast–not only in terms of the technology, but also how the world is reacting to it. Anonymity, security, and use cases of every cryptocurrency is being intensely scrutinized since there are now some 2,000 or more cryptocurrencies out there. However it’s not only the currencies themselves, but also how they are […]
The UK is getting ready to push forward one of the world’s most ridiculous censorship laws yet. Starting April 1st, online pornography in the UK will only be viewable once the user inputs qualifying identification–or buys a porn card. Huge websites like those within the Pornhub network, will be forced to put forward a landing […]
WireGuard is one of the newest VPN protocols currently in development. It promises to be more secure, and faster than any other VPN protocol to date. While we are not ready to recommend for everyday use just yet–since it is not finished, it is a promising new technology that TorGuard is starting to implement and […]
The iOS and Android app stores are filled with security apps masquerading as beneficial aids to user privacy and security. We’ve seen huge examples of “Free VPN apps” like Onavo VPN being used by Facebook to harvest data at a massive scale. Onavo VPN has since been removed from the iOS app store but remains […]
TorGuard has been leading the way when it comes to unblocking online services–and that’s because we have two things. One is our unique ability to sell IP addresses for any use case. These IPs come in many forms–from dedicated IPs, streaming IPs, and residential IPs. In order to distribute IPs for VPN users, it requires […]
Around the world, censorship continues to grow and expand as the capability of technology increases. We’ve seen China develop state of the art deep packet inspection techniques that allow them to isolate Twitter civil rights activists, and we’ve seen other countries like Russia block websites and encrypted messaging apps at a similar scale. But it’s […]
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