The list of countries that find zero-rating to be a violation of net neutrality just keeps on growing, with Canada the latest to crack down on the practice. “Zero-rating” or “positive… Read more »
Facebook’s outage early on Tuesday, which also took out linked services such as Instagram and Tinder, was down to a technical issue caused by the company itself rather than external factors… Read more »
Four U.K. Lords have proposed amendments to an anti-terror bill that would revive much of the dormant Communications Data Bill, a.k.a the “Snooper’s Charter”. In particular, the amendments would let British authorities… Read more »
The U.S. government’s healthcare insurance sign-up site HealthCare.gov is quietly handing over deeply personal information to advertising and social networks, according to a Tuesday Associated Press report. The Electronic Frontier Foundation… Read more »
British Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly set to ask President Barack Obama to apply pressure to U.S. tech firms that offer fully encrypted communications, to compel them to break the… Read more »
Mozilla has released Firefox 35, which brings with it the enhancements to the Firefox Hello video-calling feature that I wrote about when they were in beta. Firefox 35 also introduces a… Read more »
The British prime minister David Cameron has suggested that if his Conservative Party wins the upcoming general election, it will not allow encrypted communications that cannot be read by the security… Read more »
As predicted last month, Samsung is pulling the plug on its ChatOn messaging service. The Korean news service Yonhap reported on Friday that will axe the service on February 1,… Read more »
Mass online surveillance and censorship of what people see on the web appear to be getting worse, according to the latest Web Index report from Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation… Read more »
The password manager Dashlane, which competes with the likes of LastPass and 1Password, just gained a new trick. Through the acquisition of a New York-based startup called PassOmatic, Dashlane is now… Read more »