2022-09-17 00:17
Law enforcement agencies across the US can now track potential suspects and witnesses, without setting off alarm bells, using Fog Reveal. This cheap and effective software from Fog Data Scie… Read More
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2022-09-10 21:04
Over 2.5 billion people regularly enjoy online games, with 66% in the US admitting to playing video games for at least an hour a week.
US gamers under 18 make up over 20%, a concern… Read More
2022-08-31 09:39
The events of 9/11 shook the world, and rightly so — the devastation left US citizens stricken with fear. We were willing to do anything to protect ourselves and our country from anoth… Read More
2022-08-30 12:28
Our commitment to online privacy stands at the core of our service – we operate under a 100% transparency credo. That said, we know VPN use is tied to trust. We know reviewers and jour… Read More
2022-08-29 14:25
You’re on a much-needed vacation at your favorite resort or holding a one-on-one meeting in a conference room. Imagine being asleep in your hotel room or having a conversation in an ar… Read More
2022-08-25 13:40
Though possibly daunting, implementing parental controls in your household doesn’t have to be a negative experience. The main thing to remember is to respect your child’s autonom… Read More
2022-08-13 19:37
Over the past two centuries, the US economy underwent vast fluctuations, depressions, and recessions. Between bank bailouts and stimulus payments, the government has tried to ease the blow t… Read More
2022-08-12 08:01
August 14th is fast approaching, which means it’s almost time to celebrate Financial Awareness Day. Check your 401k, watch that budget, and read on to learn why we celebrate being fina… Read More
2022-08-02 23:47
The internet is filled with distracting, explicit, or even dangerous content. Thankfully, you can get around it easily by blocking websites.
Whether you’re trying to block websites… Read More
2022-07-31 17:25
Whistleblowers play a crucial role in ensuring the rule of law is properly preserved, and the public knows about unlawfully or unethically withheld critical information. .From the sailors wh… Read More
2022-07-04 08:27
How Online Privacy Laws Stack Up Across the United States
Cybercrime in the US is expected to cost $10 trillion by 2025. In response to this and other factors, such as the increase in rem… Read More
2022-07-01 09:53
Private Internet Access recently interviewed Mathieu Gorge, CEO and co-founder of VigiTrust. She asked him about his passion for cybersecurity.
Private Internet Access: What motivated you… Read More
2022-06-30 13:05
While legislators play catch-up with cybercrime, Private Internet Access is helping Americans take matters into their own hands with our 50 Servers in 50 States campaign. We now offer physic… Read More
2022-06-22 06:12
We recently interviewed Michał Kasprzak, SecOps/SysOps Administrator of TraceRoute42. We asked him about his company’s customers’ secure access to the Kubernetes cluster… Read More
2022-06-18 23:30
How to Stop the Interception and Retransmission of Data
Around 16% of all global companies work remotely, with no indication the trend will slow anytime soon. While remote working can sav… Read More
2022-06-13 11:22
The Indian government has announced a new data collection directive, No. 20(3)/2022-CERT-In, which goes into effect on June 27, 2022. The legislation forces data-handling companies, includin… Read More
2022-06-10 01:13
How to Protect Your Email
Hackers can use your email to gain access to almost your whole life through trojan spyware, malware, and viruses that infect your devices.
Whether phish… Read More
2022-06-08 20:00
Coming up with secure passwords feels like a strenuous exercise, but remembering the long combinations to log in is even more difficult. So, it’s not surprising that over a third of in… Read More
2022-05-26 14:25
Simple Ways to Reduce Your Digital Footprint
More businesses and individuals are using remote options than ever before. Whether online payment services, remote offices, or video conferenc… Read More
2022-05-26 01:36
Three main bodies of the EU — the European Commission, European Council, and European Parliament — have reached a “political agreement” on the Digital Services Act (D… Read More
2022-05-23 16:05
Archiving and Hiding Sensitive Documents
Maybe you use ZIP files and folders to organize important documents while saving space. Or perhaps you want to share several project files in a fo… Read More
2022-05-18 14:04
Imagine this: it’s been a long morning at school and you take out your phone to relax. You wait 30 seconds, but your Instagram feed isn’t loading. Your school could be one of the… Read More
2022-05-13 15:23
Mental health apps have been in demand for a while now, but since the pandemic, their popularity grew by over 500%. I downloaded and used a few myself — mainly to help me fall asleep a… Read More
2022-05-11 14:21
Surveillance once meant large-scale government spying on citizens, mostly to identify criminal activity, such as terrorism. But things have advanced quite a lot now. Surveillance has even mo… Read More
2022-05-11 06:53
Our interview with Benedict Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of Traced, was a fascinating one. We learned all about his company’s Trustd MTD app that they developed throughout the pandemic… Read More
2022-04-28 08:13
There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of… Read More
2022-04-18 05:42
We recently had the pleasure of interview in PSafe’s CEO Marco DeMello. We asked him about his company’s dfndr security application and enterprise.
Private Internet Access: Wh… Read More
2022-04-13 09:22
Oh no, it’s that time of the year again – tax season. Time to break out the calculator and navigate through complex Internet Revenue Service (IRS) instructions! You might get a s… Read More
2022-04-11 15:00
Digital privacy is a human right. But we’re being spied on more than we may realize. Android phone users are particularly at-risk of watchful eyes, even with customized software. Not e… Read More
2022-04-08 15:00
There’s a shocking lack of diversity in the smartphone market. Either you’re boasting an iPhone in your pocket or you’re carrying around an Android. But Google spies on you… Read More
2022-04-07 09:15
Digital surveillance comes in many forms. The traditional kind, where governments spy on you as you move around the Internet, is the easiest to take measures against. A good VPN will help ob… Read More
Securing Your Accounts Is Difficult. This Is What You Should Know About Multi-Factor Authentication.
2022-04-06 15:00
Security isn’t something you can compromise on in the 21st century. Without it, your bank accounts would be drained, your identity would probably be stolen, and your sensitive files wo… Read More
2022-04-04 10:00
Ever since the facial recognition company Clearview AI appeared from nowhere two years ago, it has remained at the leading edge of its field, not least in terms of ethics. As a recent PIA bl… Read More
2022-03-31 15:00
My career is about to take off — at least it is if I was to believe the number of companies looking at my LinkedIn profile over the past few weeks.
On an almost daily basis, the busine… Read More
2022-03-29 15:00
One of the most surprising developments in recent years is how privacy – something that by definition is about small, intimate things – has become a major global force in the sph… Read More
2022-03-24 15:00
CCTV surveillance has been covered many times on PIA blog. Most of the stories are depressing tales of increased surveillance and loss of privacy. One of the worst offenders in the CCTV came… Read More
2022-03-22 20:00
For the last two decades, social media has been the arena into which thoughts are thrown — open to inspection by friends, family, colleagues, and the wider world. Facebook and Twitter… Read More
2022-03-17 15:00
PIA blog followed Google’s Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto for some years, until the plan to create a futuristic smart city was dropped in 2020. The principal problem with the project… Read More
2022-03-09 16:00
As this blog has reported, one of the biggest threats to privacy is surveillance advertising. It works by tracking everything people do online — which sites they visit, what they do th… Read More
2022-03-04 10:57
PIA recently sat down with Chris Mayers, Senior Principal Security Engineer at Citrix and asked him about his company’s Virtual Apps and Desktops offering.
Private Internet Access:… Read More
2022-02-25 16:00
PIA blog first wrote about the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI two years ago, when news about its huge database of three billion facial images appeared. Its main market is currently… Read More
2022-02-25 12:22
We interviewed RoboForm’s VP of Marketing Simon Davis and asked him how password management is expanding beyond typical logins.
Private Internet Access: What has your journey to you… Read More
2022-02-21 12:28
With many thanks to ANY.RUN’s CEO Aleksey Lapshin, Private Internet Access learned all about how residential VPNs are becoming more important nowadays.
Private Internet Access: What… Read More
2022-02-18 16:00
Back in 2019, the PIA blog looked at the emerging world of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Given their potential to take direct readings of what we are thinking, they clearly have importan… Read More
2022-02-14 17:38
AxCrypt is a software that enables you to easily encrypt files and folders. It’s essential when you are sharing your computer with multiple users and want to maintain your privacy. Jon… Read More
2022-02-10 16:00
This blog has written many times about the risks to privacy of surveillance advertising. Nonetheless, it can be hard to appreciate what that might mean in real life. A new report from Cracke… Read More
2022-02-08 22:06
We have just updated our Transparency Report, detailing the requests we’ve received from state, federal, and foreign law enforcement.
The requests were as follows:
Court order:… Read More
2022-02-08 09:11
Private Internet Access recently interviewed Eugene Shablygin, CEO of WWPass. We asked him about his company’s information storage technology and how users can log in seamlessly withou… Read More
2022-02-04 16:00
PIA blog has just written about a major problem for Google: a decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuing use of Google Analytics violates the EU’s GDPR legi… Read More
2022-01-31 21:08
VISTA InfoSec is a vendor-neutral company providing Risk Compliance and Information Security Advisory Services to organizations for the past 16 years. Narendra Sahoo, the CEO of VISTA InfoSe… Read More
2022-01-27 16:00
Government attempts to weaken cryptography to allow general surveillance are not new: they date back at least to the 1993 Clipper chip. Similarly, claims that children will be harmed by stro… Read More
2022-01-24 16:00
The GDPR is finally beginning to make itself felt more strongly, as a series of blog posts have noted. The situation is summed up in a new “DLA Piper GDPR fines and data breach survey… Read More
2022-01-21 09:09
Nick Terkay is a driven technology leader with over a decade of experience in delivering software products at the intersection of high technical quality and delightful user experiences. Nick… Read More
2022-01-17 08:52
This week, we had the opportunity to speak with Shrishail Rana, the Director of Tweaking technologies. We discussed their beginnings, what are some of the worst cyber threats, and how to pro… Read More
2022-01-15 16:00
As most people know from bitter personal experience, one of the most tiresome aspects of moving around the web is the constant barrage of pop-ups, asking whether the user agrees to cookies… Read More
2022-01-14 16:00
Instant secure communication is a basic expectation in the 21st century. It’s a way of keeping in touch with friends, family, work colleagues, and casual drinking buddies — witho… Read More
2022-01-14 08:42
This week we had the pleasure of meeting Anand Naik, Co-founder of Sequretek – a company that develops AI-based products for cyber-security purposes. We talked about different cyber th… Read More
2022-01-12 18:11
Livex is a solution that takes your business to the next level with a custom software solution that will help you get more done so you can focus on growing your business. Reinard Mortlock, t… Read More
2022-01-10 16:00
Back in June 2021, this blog noted that there were two important proposals for new laws moving their way through the European Union’s legislative system. One, the Digital Services Act… Read More
2022-01-03 23:12
Private Internet Access recently sat down with Elena Elkina, Co-Founder of Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) and asked her how her organization empowers women to succeed in the cybersecur… Read More
2022-01-03 20:00
I recently wrote about constructing a fake persona to hide your identity online. I’ll admit that for most people, it’s a lot of trouble to go through. In most cases, it’s c… Read More
2021-12-29 19:00
We recently sat down with Adrian Furtuna, Founder of Pentest-Tools.com, and he told us that he started his company because he wanted to be able to automate pen testing so he could concentrat… Read More
2021-12-27 19:15
Peter Steiner’s cartoon “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is The New Yorker’s most reprinted drawing since they first published it in 1993.
Forg… Read More
2021-12-27 15:38
We recently interviewed Dr. Tirthankar Ghosh, Professor and Associate Director at the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida. He told us how the global supply chain is de… Read More
2021-12-16 16:00
Since Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be rebranded as Meta to emphasize a new focus on virtual reality (VR), it has been hard to avoid hearing about the “metaverse”… Read More
2021-12-14 20:33
On December 9, 2021, a zero-day vulnerability was disclosed in the open-source Apache library in one of its Java-logging frameworks – Log4j 2, w… Read More
2021-12-13 18:23
Warning: This post contains uncomfortable levels of personal information.
My name is David Rutland. I’m the managing editor of PIA’s blog, and I suppose this is as good an… Read More
2021-12-09 15:00
The privacy campaigner Max Schrems has been doggedly fighting to force Facebook to respect EU users’ privacy for nearly a decade now. As this blog has reported, there have been many t… Read More
2021-12-09 12:51
We interviewed Franco De Bonis, Marketing Director of VISUA, and asked him about his platform that provides brand intelligence to analyze visual data.
Private Internet Access: Tell me abo… Read More
2021-12-09 10:29
Ziv Cohen CEO of Paygilant, sat with us for an interview about how his company is rolling with the changes in digital banking and helping FinTech companies stay secure.
Private Inter… Read More
2021-12-06 11:32
We recently met with Nathan Collins, Director of Sales and Marketing at PAVilion, and found out that his company provides essential support services to organizations.
Private Internet Acc… Read More
2021-12-03 21:37
This week, we had the opportunity to speak with Ivan Spencer-Phillips, the Head Engineer at Astaris. We discussed their beginnings, what services they offer, and why do individuals and compa… Read More
2021-12-03 21:28
Mushroom Networks is a company that built their Software-Defined WAN from the ground up to meet, and exceed, the needs of today’s enterprise customers including small, medium and large… Read More
2021-12-03 21:23
pCloud helps you store, share and access all your files using one simple and highly secure platform, anytime and anywhere you go. Tunio Zafer, the CEO of pCloud, sha… Read More
2021-12-03 21:15
This week, we had the opportunity to speak with Hen Lamay, the VP R&D of Deceptive Bytes, who kindly agreed to share some insight about the company and cybersecurity threats of modern ti… Read More
2021-11-30 16:00
If you’ve ever done something super sneaky and prayed that no one would ever find out, you’re in a similar position to Edward Snowden when he leaked highly classified information… Read More
2021-11-24 10:00
Recently, this blog explored the allegations by 17 US states that Google had abused its monopoly power to stifle competition, and delayed the EU’s ePrivacy legislation. Hard on its hee… Read More
2021-11-17 09:15
Private Internet Access: What has your journey to your current job been?
CC: It has definitely been an unusual track—from marketing in higher education to writing for technolog… Read More
2021-11-16 17:20
Back in December last year, Texas and nine other US states sued Google alleging that the company enjoys monopolistic power, and that it is stifling competition. Google called this a “… Read More
2021-11-14 13:37
1.What has your journey to your current job been?
The past few years have been quite the ride that keeps on going.
In the beginning my co-founder and I were interested in entering the… Read More
2021-11-11 17:57
This blog’s posts can often seem a depressing series of stories about privacy loss. But there are some major fightbacks happening in the background, many of which require the slow gri… Read More
2021-11-04 16:50
It has been clear for years that the widespread use of micro-targeted advertising and real-time bidding represents a huge threat to online privacy. Fortunately, an alternative approach is a… Read More
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2021-10-28 17:44
VPNs based in the United States frequently get unwarranted criticism, claiming that, by nature of them being based in the US, they are somehow “less secure” or “l… Read More
2021-10-27 22:54
A couple of months ago, this blog wrote about Apple’s Expanded Protections for Children, which turned out to mean client-side scanning (CSS). That is, code on your smartphone would be… Read More
2021-10-25 18:46
Each week in October, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’ll publish an article packed with facts and stats, to give you an in-depth look at the state of cybersecurity in toda… Read More
2021-10-25 09:17
Back in April, Privacy News Online reported on an important set of proposals from the European Commission to regulate the use of artificial intelligence within the EU. It contained some good… Read More
2021-10-21 10:00
It might seem strange that Amazon has figured so many times on this blog, what with its facial recognition service, eavesdropping Alexa devices, Ring home surveillance, and Halo wearable dev… Read More
2021-10-20 16:47
On 5 October, Mark Zuckerberg sent a note to Facebook employees, beginning: “Hey everyone: it’s been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.” Th… Read More
2021-10-18 20:51
Each week in October, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’ll publish an article packed with facts and stats, to give you an in-depth look at the state of cybersecurity in toda… Read More
2021-10-12 10:17
Most people have heard of open source these days – after all, it has conquered every aspect of computing, with the possible exception of the desktop. But Open Source Intelligence (OSI… Read More
2021-10-11 19:02
Each week in October, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’ll publish an article packed with facts and stats, to give you an in-depth look at the state of cybersecurity in toda… Read More
2021-10-08 13:59
Privacy News Online has written a number of times about “surveillance capitalism“, and its use of micro-targeted advertising to influence people’s buying decisions. But th… Read More
2021-10-04 20:45
Each week in October, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’ll publish an article packed with facts and stats, to give you an in-depth look at the state of cybersecurity in toda… Read More
2021-10-04 08:21
Privacy News Online has just written about a troubling proposal by Apple to carry out surveillance directly on iPhones. In Australia, the situation is even worse. There, the government has… Read More
2021-09-27 16:25
Privacy News Online has just reported on a major privacy disaster in Afghanistan, where biometric and other highly personal data is now in the hands of the Taliban. That makes clear, in a d… Read More
2021-09-21 20:46
As Privacy News Online has reported, for years governments around the world have kept up a constant assault on end-to-end encryption. One of the leaders of this attempt to demonize a crucia… Read More
What The West’s Disorderly Withdrawal From Afghanistan Tells Us About Privacy And Its Preservation
2021-09-13 20:24
In the wake of the West’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul, and the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban, Afghanistan continues to dominate the headlines. Given the major geopoli… Read More
2021-09-03 20:01
Apple is a company that has always made much of its commitment to privacy, and has succeeded in turning it into a unique selling point of its products. That proud history made a recent anno… Read More
2021-09-03 20:01
Almost every part of our everyday lives is closely connected to the internet – we depend on it for communication, entertainment, information, running our households, even running our c… Read More
2021-08-25 10:07
Two years ago, this blog wrote about the privacy implications of the exciting new field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The approach discussed there involved implanting tiny threads di… Read More
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