This is a problem that happens more often than we care to admit. Many services billing themselves as private, or at least presenting the illusion to the expectation of privacy, are outright lying to consumers. This is because no company that does business in China can truly be private, as...
While other areas of the world are becoming seemingly more liberal, China is in a permanently regressive state. Rather than changing views and laws to reflect the desires of Chinese citizens, China’s Communist Party has doubled down by removing more and more freedoms and altogether eliminating the reasonable expectation...
It’s easy to take living in a free country for granted. Most of us wake up, make a cup of coffee, turn on the news, or browse the internet. It seems like an everyday facet of modern life, but many people in the world aren’t afforded the same...
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...
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...
The internet as we know it has become a vast global phenomenon. Data is transmitted to push through financial transactions as well as personal or corporate data, and the devices we use to send this information play an important part in protecting ourselves. One way to protect devices and the...
