Privacy
South Korea NIS Gains Power to Probe Corporate Hacks on Suspicion
South Korea's National Intelligence Service is about to get significantly broader reach into the private sector. New legislation passed through the South Korean legislative committee authorizes the NI...
NordVPN Threatens Canada Exit Over Bill C-22 Surveillance Law
Canada's proposed Bill C-22, known as the Lawful Access Act, is drawing sharp criticism from technology companies, civil liberties organizations, and now at least one major VPN provider. The legislati...
Italy's Garante Fines Banking Apps €12.5M for Forced Device Surveillance
Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, has issued fines totaling €12.5 million against two banking app providers found to have embedded invasive device-monitoring tools inside their applicati...
Rogue Wi-Fi Found Near Philippine Senate: What It Means for You
The Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is currently investigating reports of unauthorized Wi-Fi access points detected in the vicinity of the Senate complex in M...
AP's Pulitzer-Winning Surveillance Investigation: What It Reveals
The Associated Press has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its landmark investigative series, 'Made in America, Watched Worldwide.' The investigation revealed two deeply uncomfortable truths: that Ame...
Congress Passes 45-Day FISA Section 702 Extension, Punts Warrant Debate
For the latest time in a long string of last-minute reprieves, the U.S. Congress passed a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), doing so just hours befor...
House Votes 235-191 to Extend FISA Section 702 Three More Years
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 235-191 on April 29, 2026, to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another three years. The program, which grants int...
Why VPNs Alone Won't Stop Your ISP From Tracking You
Many people assume that using a VPN is enough to keep their internet activity private. And while a VPN does encrypt your traffic and mask your IP address from websites, there is a quieter tracking mec...
China-Backed Espionage Campaign Targets Journalists and Activists
Researchers at Citizen Lab and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) have exposed a large-scale digital espionage operation linked to China that systematically targeted jour...
Geofence Warrants Hit the Supreme Court: What It Means
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing one of the most consequential digital privacy cases in years. Oral arguments in *Chatrie v. United States* have put geofence warrants at the center of a national deb...