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Google is using Gmail to track your purchases. No one knows why.
For almost six years, Google has extracted and stored all purchases, bookings, and subscriptions from your Gmail account. It’s not clear why Google wants this information, and there’s no easy way ...
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The fight for your face: The battles deciding the fate of facial recognition
This post was originally published on May 29, 2019. Last week, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to ban government agencies from using facial recognition technology. With the increasingl...
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Worried your devices will get confiscated at the border? Here’s what you can do
There is growing evidence to suggest that border security agents are taking greater steps to intrude into our daily lives. Just last year, customs agents in the U.S. conducted over 33,000 warrantless ...
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This congressman wants to turn Taiwan into a blockchain island. We asked him how.
It’s been over ten years since the birth of Bitcoin, and while many cryptocurrencies have come and gone, the technology under it all, blockchain, has proved resilient to the fads and failed ICOs. On...
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UK's Online Harms White Paper casts a cloud on free speech
The UK government has introduced a new regulatory framework that seeks to push companies with online platforms to regulate “harmful” material posted on their websites. The Online Harms White Paper...
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EU approves controversial new copyright directive
Bad news: The European Parliament has voted in a highly controversial update to the Copyright Directive, which includes new copyright rules that will effectively dismantle the way content is shared on...
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Privacy Q&A: EFF wants 9 tech giants to #FixItAlready
This article was originally published on March 22, 2019. Perhaps the worst aspect of the privacy and security issues plaguing the tech we use every day is that they seem completely preventable. Why h...
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A controversial NSA phone records program might be shutting down
The National Security Agency (NSA) may be ending a program that analyzes the records of hundreds of millions of domestic calls and messages in the U.S. A senior Republican congressional aide, Luke Mur...
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India proposes mass surveillance measures in new IT bill
Update on June 2, 2022: In light of data retention regulations, ExpressVPN no longer has physical servers in India. Find out more. India’s government is taking drastic steps to surveil and censor ...
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How to survive an internet shutdown
Internet freedoms have been declining for a decade now, according to reports by Freedom House. Internet shutdowns in particular have been one strategy that we’ve seen frequently in recent years. Wi...
