Surfshark joins forces with Amnesty International to train digital human rights defenders

Surfshark has announced a new partnership with Amnesty International to support its Digital Forensics Fellowship, a specialized program teaching human rights defenders to analyze mobile devices for spyware and malicious su…

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Google Chrome’s Incognito mode doesn’t hide your browsing data from your ISP — here’s what actually does

Going “Incognito” won’t stop your internet provider from tracking, throttling, and selling your browsing history. Here is exactly how they see what you do online, and the best ways to shut them out.
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Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is ‘simply impossible’

A top Russian official has admitted that banning VPNs is technically impossible without breaking the country’s internet infrastructure.
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The EU becomes the latest authority to signal that VPNs are next, after launching its age verification app — here’s how VPNs went from a necessity security tool to circumvention software that needs to be restricted

As the internet gets age-gated, users turn to VPN apps in a bid to circumvent mandatory checks. The EU is now the last to turn its attention towards this tech — and cybersecurity experts are worried.
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‘Google is not collaborative and not in the spirit of complying with this regulation’ – can the EU Commission strong-arm Google into levelling the playing field of the search engine market, and is this really in the interest of your privacy?

With the Digital Market Act (DMA), the EU made its intention to end Google’s market dominance clear. While some are already cheering the push for our Search data to be shared with hopefully better alternative services, oth…

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GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone

A researcher disclosed an Android 16 VPN bypass that leaks your real IP. Google declined to patch it, but GrapheneOS shipped a fix within days.
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‘A waste of money’ — Digital rights group slams Utah’s new ‘impossible by design’ VPN restrictions under controversial age verification law

Utah’s new age verification law targets VPN users, but digital rights group Fight for the Future is calling the legislation technically impossible and a massive “waste of money.” Here is why experts are furious.
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Russia’s censor body, Roskomnadzor, wants to block 92% of VPN apps by 2030 — and it’s investing 20 billion rubles a year to build a permanent VPN censorship system

The Russian media regulator, Roskomnadzor, has set an ambitious and alarming goal: to block 92% of all Virtual Private Network (VPN) services operating within the country by 2030. Here’s all we know.
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Proton, Tor, Mullvad, ExpressVPN, and Mozilla among the 19 organizations urging the UK government ‘not to undermine the open web’ as Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill becomes law — a move that could ‘infringe human rights’

The Act introduces new online restrictions for young people, alongside an obligation for service providers to take “reasonable anti-circumvention measures.” Here’s why privacy raises the alarm.
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Russia orders Apple and Google to remove Important Stories, an investigative media app that works without a VPN — leaving Russians without a key source for accessing uncensored news

Important Stories launched the IStories mobile app in February to make sure information would reach Russians despite widespread internet censorship and VPN restrictions.
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