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How Companies Steal Your Rights
Digital Rights Management (DRM) and forced arbitration are two big problems that consumers face when dealing with digital media and online agreements. They were not created to give ...
Hack Update – Anonymous #OpIcarus
The Anonymous hacktivist collective has been fighting for free speech and open Internet for many years. Some applaud their spirit in going after elitist groups, but others have criticized ...
Using Bitcoin for Financial Privacy
Keeping finances private is important for security, and this is why we are careful to properly store and dispose of our bills and bank statements. But managing this information online ...
ECPA Reform Moves, But Do People Care?
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was just passed by the House Judiciary Committee and will soon be presented to the House. Privacy advocates are celebrating this step ...
Major EU Privacy Reform Passed
The US Department of Homeland Security attaché to the EU, Erik Barnett, said in January that no one should be allowed anonymity online. He wants everyone to be easily identifiable, ...
Digital Privacy at Election Time
The US will be electing a new president this fall, and this means that the media – including social media – is going to be increasingly abuzz with talks about each candidate’s ...
What the Government Wants with Encryption
There has been some confusion created by the controversy over the use of encryption and the creation of backdoors for government and law enforcement use. We hope that this post will ...
Facebook Tracking Increases Even as Safe Harbor Case Reaches ECJ
The end of September was abuzz with news of more Facebook data privacy threats, and even a rumor on the site itself that the company is going to kill all privacy protections. Although ...
Your Shared Pictures Give Up Your Location
Are you one of those people who loves to take snapshots of your pets and share them on the Internet? If you are, we totally understand that urge to show the world how cute you kitty ...
Why You Should Care About Data Privacy
Our top provider ExpressVPN just shared a spine-tingling article with us about how we are being manipulated into freely sharing our data with the government and big corporations. The ...
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