Privacy, censorship and VPN news

Blocking, data breaches, age-verification and surveillance laws. We work from primary sources, not press releases.

Articles in total: 411

27.09.2026

UK will let platforms buy their way off the under-16 ban by redesigning features

26.09.2026

Italy Files: the breach behind the fake police request that unlocked Revolut data

26.09.2026

Jury: Facebook's privacy promises broke consumer law 43.9 million times

26.09.2026

TikTok buys its way out of trial: age checks and a night curfew for Alabama teens

25.09.2026

Revolut starts face payments in London two weeks after leaking customers' selfies

25.09.2026

HRW: Apple removed 1,213 apps on Russian requests, nearly 60% of its global total

25.09.2026

Japan moves to let police read suspects' phones remotely to prevent crimes

25.09.2026

Researchers say VK can turn on Max surveillance for one account at a time

25.09.2026

Activists and VPN providers hold a second day of action against bans

25.09.2026

The Philippines blocked Discord, then lifted the ban a day later

24.09.2026

Strikes on Kyiv data centres left about 100,000 homes without internet

24.09.2026

Second Revolut data incident this month, now through its US broker DriveWealth

24.09.2026

Arson at the Polish Starlink ground station that carries traffic to Ukraine

24.09.2026

Judge orders the White House to return press passes to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

24.09.2026

India ties its cooking gas subsidy to Aadhaar biometrics from 1 October