The Attack on Global Privacy Leaves Few Places To Turn
The Attack on Global Privacy Leaves Few Places To Turn
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
August 14, 20178m 29s
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Show Notes
Digital privacy has had a very bad summer. As China and Russia move to block virtual private network services, well over a billion people face losing their best chance at circumventing censorship laws. First, China asked telecom companies to start blocking user access to VPNs that didn't pass government muster by next February. More recently, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law to ban VPNs and other anonymous browsing tools that undermine government censorship.
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