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

23.09.2026

Latvia arrests a hacker who took device unlock codes from a repair chain's database

23.09.2026

Turkey blocks 194 X accounts of economists and journalists during a fund crisis

23.09.2026

iOS 27 reroutes blocked requests over mobile data, past your DNS filter

23.09.2026

Sweden fines an IT supplier over a leak that hit one in five people in the country

22.09.2026

ShinyHunters say they stole data on all FBI employees through an HR system

22.09.2026

Google agrees to report child abuse material directly to India's cyber police

21.09.2026

Ireland fines Google €403 million for tracking users' location without a lawful basis

21.09.2026

Instagram hid a post in India describing how it deletes Alt News fact-checks

20.09.2026

Singapore cancer centre put 467 hereditary-cancer patients in CC instead of BCC

19.09.2026

Italy breaks up New Saga, a paid Telegram child abuse network, from the inside

19.09.2026

Spain's culture ministry orders ISPs to block archive.today and its mirrors

18.09.2026

Lithuania orders providers to block 12 radio sites that carried Sputnik

18.09.2026

Venezuela unblocks 17 censored news sites, but 188 websites stay blocked

18.09.2026

Apple softens the tracking-consent prompt for apps in the EU

17.09.2026

Turkey blocks 419 social media accounts of LGBTQ+ activists and journalists