It’s a new year and to welcome 2016 with a bang, Netflix is releasing new movies and TV series to entertain viewers with great shows. Here are what’s in store for viewers for the month of January 2016. This list include shows that will become available worldwide regardless of the Netflix channel. Regional Netflix channels […]
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People Want an End to Geo-Blocks, Says EU Study
Almost one in three Europeans say they would like to be able to use their streaming and online services cross border, according to a new survey from the EU’s Digital Agenda for Europe. Up to 56 percent of Europeans that took part in the survey said that had an “uneasy experience” with trying to access […]
The European Commission Wants to Do Away With Geo Blocks
The European Commission is considering a formal competition inquiry into geo-blocking in Europe that would make services like Netflix accessible regardless of country. Margrethe Vestager, European Competition Commissioner, said that it was not acceptable that European customers cannot access the content they are already paying for when they visit other countries. This goes against the […]
UAE Police Issues Warning to VPN Users
A police official in the United Arab Emirates has said that the use of VPNs is punishable under the law as it alters your Internet connection. “Tampering with the Internet network is a crime,” said Saeed Al Hajri, director of the cyber crime division, Dubai Police, in a report from Emirates 24/7. Al Hajri had […]
EU Digital Chief Calls for an End to Geo Blocks
The vice president of the EU’s digital single market initiative believes that geo-blocking should be a thing of the past. Andrus Ansip of the European Commission stated that geo blocking measures, implemented by Netflix most famously but is an issue across countless online services, as a barrier that needs to be removed. “Far too often, […]
Popular Tor Router Raided by Local Authorities
According to new reports, authorities have raided another corner of the Tor network. Sometime last week, privacy advocate and node operator Thomas White took to his Twitter account to warn his loyal followers that his exit relay on the anonymizing router network Tor had been infiltrated and taken down by an unknown group of law […]
Best Venezuela VPN
Venezuelan Internet users not only have to contend with generally slower speeds but Reporters Without Borders reports that there are growing censorship practices in Venezuela online despite positive reports from the OpenNet Initiative. Media in Venezuela is also classified as
Hewlett Foundation Grants $45m to Security Research
The Hewlett Foundation is to pump $45m into cyber security research at three major universities – MIT, Stanford, and UC Buckley. The grant is aimed at establishing new major academic research centers. Hewlett is hoping to create a “marketplace for ideas” by addressing the growing issues surrounding online security globally. Each university is receiving $15m. […]
EFF Appoints New Executive Director
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit for Internet freedom, has named Cindy Cohn as its new executive director who will take up the post in April, leaving her role as legal director. Cohn will replace Shari Steele, who has been with the EFF for over 20 years. Intellectual property director Corynne McSherry will take […]
Hungary Pulls Plans for ‘Internet Tax’
Hungary will ditch its plans to introduce an ‘Internet tax’ after thousands took to the streets in protest. The proposal would have seen taxes levied against each gigabyte of data transferred and was fiercely condemned by citizens and opposition parties. The fee would have taxed each gigabyte at 150 forints, or €0.50 or $0.60 and […]
UK to Expand Trolling Sentences to 2 Years
The UK is set to ramp up punishment for online trolling, setting sentences of up to two years for those charged. Previously it was six months. Chris Grayling, UK Justice Secretary, said the strengthening of the law was necessary to offset malicious communications and threats online “This is a law to combat cruelty — and […]
UN Report Condemns Mass Surveillance
A new report published by the UN has stated that mass Internet surveillance is “corrosive of online privacy” and could be a violation of international law. The study, led by UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson QC, said “The hard truth is that the use of mass surveillance technology effectively does away with the […]
VPN Providers Release ShellShock Updates
A number of VPN providers have posted updates regarding their services pertaining to ShellShock, the Bash vulnerability that has the security community on their toes this week. Viking VPN has announced that it has completed emergency patching on its services. “All VikingVPN services are now hardened against the attack,” writes Derek Zimmer on the VPN […]
Comcast Refutes Tor Rumors
Earlier reports suggested that Comcast was contacting customers who had been using Tor and requesting they stop using the anonymous browser or risk having their Internet connection cut off but the ISP has come out now to state that this is not the case. In a post on its site, Comcast states that all reports […]
UK Police Sanctioned Over Social Media Misuse
Hundreds of UK police and officers have been investigated for making threatening and racist comments on Twitter and Facebook, as well as friend-requesting crime victims and posting ‘compromising’ images of colleagues, according to the figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. The news comes from documents obtained by the Press Association that shows responses […]
After Twitter Ban, The Islamic States Moves Over to Diaspora
The extreme jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has been using social media, mostly Twitter, to spread its message to outside world, using multiple accounts of its members. Twitter has been coming down hard on these accounts and IS has sought a new platform – Diaspora. Twitter’s clampdown reached its peak last week as international criticism […]
Symantec Combines All Norton Services
Symantec is completely overhauling its anti-virus products range by wiping out a number of services in favor of one unified product due for release in September. The new service, known simply as Norton Security, will combine the features of Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Internet Security into one interface. Symantec says it is taking a few […]
US Privacy Official Leaves the White House
The White House’s first privacy-focused official, deputy CTO Nicole Wong, has left her position with little explanation after just over a year. Wong previously held positions such as director of legal products at Twitter and deputy general counsel at Google, the latter of which involved making calls on censoring certain content on YouTube and in […]
New Law in Ukraine Would Curb Internet Freedom
The Ukrainian government has passed the first draft of new legislation that could seriously curb Internet freedom and media in the country, says Reporters Without Borders. The proposed law would allow Verkhovna Rada officials to block websites and close down media companies without a court order. Parliament approved the first reading on Tuesday with a […]
New “No-Install” Malware Plagues Windows Machines
Late last week, researcher Paul Rascagneres announced the discovery of a new strain of Windows malware in his blog on GData.com, one which requires no installation on behalf of the user, and can operate entirely out of the registry while avoiding detection by many of the most popular anti-virus programs on the market today. Downloaded […]