Tag Archives: Censorship

The Egyptian government has stepped up its crackdown against what it describes as the careless use of the internet in the country. Only a few weeks ago, the government managed to block Signal, a popular private messaging service. The move by the government to block the messaging service that is …

Signal, the popular messaging service that allows users to communicate using end-to-end encryption methods is set to develop new features to defeat government censorship. Announcing the new plans, the company behind the app, Open Whispers said that it had noted that some states had developed new methods of blocking Signal. …

You can now connect to your Raspberry Pi remotely, create a small web server and share stuff with your colleagues, thanks to Dataplicity. According to Eliot Mackenzie, the person who created it, Dataplicity is a new solution to the many problems that users of Raspberry Pi face. He says that …

The Metropolitan police news site was hacked by cyber activists who were retaliating for the Million Mask march arrests which had been made earlier and been reported on the news site earlier that day, according to reports coming out of the country. The hacking group, Crash OverRide, took responsibility pf …

The ban against bypassing geo restrictions by Netflix users might be working very well, but users are not too happy about it. Protests have been made in the past few days and months over the crackdown on VPNs and other proxies by privacy and security activists in many countries including …

Netflix is continuing its fight against users who want to watch geo-blocked content. The company is now extending its fight to the blockade of IPv4 and the IPv6 tunnel brokers even if the user is using these tunnel brokers legitimately. The fact that Netflix has been treating users of different …

The Iranian government is ordering all messaging apps in the country to move all of the messages and data they have on their servers and shift them to Iranian servers before they face some consequences. The move which was reported in various news outlets raises concerns about privacy and security …

Iraq seems to have put a hold on all social media networks in the country, according to reports which are coming from the country. The free, independent newspaper Aliraqnet revealed that the Iraqi government had but a ban on the two most popular social media networks, Facebook, and Twitter. It …

China leads the world in the commerce department, having digital sales volume which far exceed that of the United States. Their retail sales volume is responsible for 40 percent of the global market share, according to eMarketer. The country also had four companies that were present in the top 10 …

A leaked internal memo of the multinational ISP Telefonica in Ecuador indicates that the Association of Internet Providers of Ecuador (AEPROVI) was in cahoots with the Ecuadorian government to block their user access to certain websites. The Associated Whistleblowing Press in partnership with the Ecuadorian whistleblowing platform, Ecuador Transparente, published …