Opinion

Even though the Snowden leaks came out 10 years ago, the United States never
ended its unconstitutional surveillance program. It now has a chance to close
the legal loopholes that allow warrantless spying on US citizens. But Congress
needs to act bef

Today, the European Parliament voted on the regulation commonly known as “chat
control”, laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material.
Earlier drafts of this bill had posed a severe threat to encryption and privacy,
but recent

Last week, the Spanish Presidency of the European Council delayed a vote
regarding the Council’s position on the controversial Child Sexual Abuse
Regulation (CSAR) due to a lack of consensus over the issue of encryption, among
others. This proposed r

Last week, the UK government made a statement in the House of Lords
acknowledging that portions of the controversial Online Safety Bill might not
even be technically enforceable without breaking end-to-end encryption. This
rightly received a lot of a

The UK Parliament is set to finalize a bill this month that threatens privacy
and freedom of speech at a fundamental level. We had hoped for last-minute
amendments to be tabled protecting encryption and privacy, but based on
information coming from P

The RESTRICT Act, which would enable the the US government to ban TikTok from
the US market, is currently working its way through Congress and has the backing
of the White House. We’ve analyzed the legislation over the recent weeks, and
today we’re s

The Online Safety Bill is currently working its way through the UK parliament,
and it’s expected to be passed into law this autumn. This wide-reaching piece of
legislation would force any “user-to-user service” (such as TikTok, Facebook,
and Twitter)

Law enforcement agencies generally don’t like end-to-end encryption because it
blocks them from accessing the private communications of individual citizens.
After decades of trying to make tech companies add a “backdoor” to encryption,
they’re now sh

Today is World Wide Web Day, when the world celebrates all the amazing things
that were enabled when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a member of our advisory board,
created the building blocks of the web at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN)

After years of frustration and inaction, the world has a once-in-a-lifetime
chance to rein in Big Tech’s power. The EU advanced its landmark Digital Markets
Act, South Korea put its foot down on unfair practices, and places like India,
Japan, and Aus

The freedom of the press is essential to democracy and allows you to be aware of
whether your rights are being respected. Unfortunately, journalists worldwide
are facing unprecedented intimidation, surveillance, and censorship. This is why
Proton has