Your browser probably isn’t as safe as you think it is. Many people new to online privacy and security believe that AdBlock and an incognito mode will keep them perfectly protected on the internet. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Almost every browser is susceptible to tracking...
In China, huge billion-dollar systems are being created and implemented to track citizens as massive scales. Infrastructure has already been built to track cell phone use, location, and activity in the form of Aegis—-an application that can provide a full view to the virtual world based on real world...
Hong Kong’s reputation as an independent haven for digital nomads is looking very uncertain. By now, it’s clear that China is one of the world’s worst countries in terms of internet privacy, censorship, and surveillance–and those ideals are starting to put pressure on Hong Kong. Protesters...
We’ve been covering more and more instances of global censorship here on the TorGuard blog, from censorship in Turkey that has blocked more than 240,000 websites—to censorship in Cuba where new regulations are forming that make internet control very easy for the Cuban government. And we’ve...
Coming July 29th, Cuban society is going to become “computerized” and new censorship regulations are going to take place that drastically alter how free speech and internet content will be blocked moving forward. According to the Cuban government, the new internet changes are nothing more than a matter of “legal...
As the growth of websites and free discourse has grown–so too has government crackdowns, blacklists, and all other forms of internet censorship. Turkey has been a hotspot for censorship since 2014, banning access to over 245,825 websites. Only 11,879 of these blocked websites have been blocked through...
