Privacy News

Wednesday, July 29, is an important day for the future of the Internet. At noon
local time in Washington, DC, the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google
will appear virtually before US lawmakers who are investigating their companies
for illegal

TikTok, the video-sharing platform owned by the Chinese social media giant
ByteDance, is one of the most popular social media services in the world, with
an estimated 800 million users. However, its zealous data collection, use of
Chinese infrastruct

The United States Congress is considering a law that would destroy online
privacy as we know it and essentially outlaw the most secure American tech
products, such as Signal. The law would ban end-to-end encryption for large
companies and require dev

The governing body of Hong Kong rushed approval of Article 43, which grants
sweeping powers to Hong Kong law enforcement, including the ability to intercept
private communications and censor online media without a warrant. These
regulations specify t

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Last week, the European Commission announced, in response to a complaint filed
by Spotify, that it would be opening an investigation into Apple’s App Store
practices, which potentially constitutes an illegal breach of EU competition
laws. At Proton,

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The number of data requests the US government sent to Google has increased 510%
since 2010. US government requests to Facebook have also increased 364% since
the beginning of 2013. The databases of private companies are increasingly being
used to mon

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As the world is grappling with a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases,
fraudsters are trying to capitalize on the state of panic and even the goodwill
of others.
More than 1,400 coronavirus-related domains were registered over the past three
m

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Zoom has seen a flood of new users as the COVID-19 outbreak forces more and more
employees to transition to working from home. Zoom’s big selling point is its
near-frictionless video calls.
However, new users should be aware of the company’s privacy

On Monday, Vice’s Motherboard broke yet another story revealing the extent to
which companies are monetizing their users.
Reporter Joseph Cox’s investigation revealed how Edison, an email productivity
app, is scraping users’ personal inboxes for pur

The European Commission recently submitted proposals for new rules governing how
e-evidence is gathered by law enforcement agencies. E-evidence would include
things like emails, messages, and other data related to a possible crime or
investigation. I

- Opinion
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We created Proton Mail in 2014 because we were concerned about mass
surveillance. At the time, governments were spying on our emails, text messages,
and phone calls. Now there’s a new surveillance threat, but this time the
information at risk isn’t o