A European Parliament report on state surveillance says current programmes are “incompatible” with the human rights of EU residents and all state surveillance must be framed “in terms of collective freedoms and democracy,” rather than “data protection and national security.
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Given the constant attacks on online privacy, from both government agencies and corporate interests, the practice of keeping your data private and secure has never been more relevant nor more important. However, the online privacy landscape can often look incredibly arcane and complicated to outsiders.
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This post is part of a series reviewing the privacy policies of popular VPN services. The aim is to find out whether the VPN takes customer privacy seriously. This is not intended as a review of a VPN service, which would need to take into account a number of other factors.
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The likes of SOPA, ACTA and CISPA may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean there still aren’t a number of legislative threats against online privacy looming on the horizon. From the Trans Pacific Partnership, to the UK’s impending porn filter, Western governments are continuing to try and curtail internet freedoms.
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Anonymity tool The Onion Router (TOR) has had a pretty rough few months, following confirmation that the FBI used an security flaw in the Tor Browser Bundle to install malware on its users’ computers. Despite offering our own privacy platform we’re big supporters of TOR and think it’s generally a secure platform to use (you can take a look at some of our guides on TOR right here).
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Edward Snowden’s revelations over the NSA’s PRISM programme is the biggest influence on people signing-up to a VPN, according to IVPN’s recent survey. A total of 1,054 people responded to our survey, which asked them to choose which recent pieces of proposed legislation and enacted laws - if any - caused them to sign-up to a Virtual Private Network service.
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This post is part of a series reviewing the privacy policies of popular VPN services. The aim is to find out whether the VPN takes customer privacy seriously. This is not intended as a review of a VPN service, which would need to take into account a number of other factors.
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The UK Intelligence and Security Committee has attempted to absolve UK authorities of any responsibility in the PRISM scandal and has published the results of an investigation into claims GCHQ along with the NSA violated UK law.
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