Here we go again. India wants to force VPN providers to establish local offices and designate compliance officers, even threatening prison terms for local employees for non-compliance.
Not sure how authorithies could enforce this, though, considering that major providers already removed their physical servers from the country in 2022. Will VPN censorship be the last resort?
NordVPN now offers a private, dedicated VPN server as an add-on. Not for everyone, perhaps, but I can see it as a good feature for gamers and other power users...
A new report reveals the shocking scale of collateral damage caused by Spain's IP-blocking efforts, taking down everything from human rights platforms to crucial cloud infrastructure.
Following the revelation that a Mullvad co-founder donated $500,000 to a populist political party, rival provider Windscribe has issued a parody statement "coming clean" about its own CEO's donations to local dog and cat rescues.
I understand that tech founders are entirely free to hold personal political affiliations. But this incident still raises broader questions about whether we want privacy-focused firms to be entangled with political groups — regardless of where they sit on the ideological spectrum.
Do you think Mullvad users should drop their subscription over this?
The push to block illegal streams is taking down innocent websites across Europe. As DNS and VPNs are increasingly a target, EuroISPA has had enough
Watch out for this campaign, launching very shortly. Stop Killing the Internet article on TechRadar.
"There is no difference between chat control, age verification, and ID verification. They are all reasoned from the same agenda. It is an escalation ladder where they start by scanning your face, then require ID, and eventually start scanning your chats."