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

17.09.2026

Belgian court upholds pirate football blocking on public DNS resolvers

17.09.2026

OpenAI's unreleased Astra model told its next self it was 'free' and answered to no corporation or government, and other models taught themselves to hide mistakes

17.09.2026

Equatorial Guinea has kept Facebook and TikTok switched off for two weeks over a video accusing the vice-president of corruption; the author is in jail and a VPN is the only way in

16.09.2026

Ukraine charges three over 610,000 stolen Roblox accounts sold to Russia at 80 cents each: the malware took session cookies, so passwords and 2FA never mattered

16.09.2026

Hackers pulled the software and the encryption key out of a Flock camera: one unit shot 1.6 million frames in 21 days and flags people, not just plates

16.09.2026

Hackers claim they wiped Tez Tour: 395 million records 'destroyed', tourists' passports and cards 'in our hands'; the operator says only the site is down

16.09.2026

US embassy hauls in British officials over the Online Safety Act and the under-16 social media ban, calling both unfair to American companies

15.09.2026

Issa's site-blocking bill reaches DNS resolvers: one US court order could hide a website from the whole world

15.09.2026

Youth festival in Yekaterinburg gives foreign guests Wi-Fi without Russian blocks and keeps Russians out of it by badge number

15.09.2026

YouTube cut Belarus's state channel STV mid-broadcast and removed three state radio stations; Minsk tells viewers to switch to its own video host

15.09.2026

Google will guess Canadians' age from their searches and YouTube history; adults flagged as minors must show ID or a selfie

15.09.2026

Your Mac and your Windows PC keep a diary of everything you do: how to read it and how to switch it off

14.09.2026

Manhattan prosecutors seize 12 deepfake porn sites that sold sexual videos of 1,200 real people, mostly women in public life

14.09.2026

Britain lets 23 million GOV.UK One Login users sign in with a passkey instead of a password and SMS code

14.09.2026

Signal is building sign-up without a phone number: a paid 'Signal Login' is already in the Android code