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Xinjiang is considered to be China’s largest province with a total of 19 million residents. It is inhabited by Muslim Uighur minority that speak Turkic and form roughly 8 million of its population. The Uighur minority have always complained about severe discrimination by the Chinese government and today Chinese authorities have taken a step further to marginalise the people of Xinjiang as they have been forced to install a spyware application on their mobile devices all...

On Sunday, about 1000 protesters marched in the streets of Moscow,Russia with the authorization of the authorities in protest of government online surveillance and online restrictions. Protesters used phrases such as “No to censorship, no to dictatorship”. It even reached the extent that some were using, “down with the police state”. All this was to oppose all the new regulations placed by the government in Russia to tighten their control over the internet, whether ...

With every terrorist event that takes place anywhere in the world comes a new excuse in one country or the other to push on a more intense government online surveillance. The most recent move was made by Australia, which is one of the Five Eyes Alliance and hence is one of the 5 countries in the world pushing for government surveillance and voting against internet privacy. These countries include Canada, UK, US, and New Zealand. The UK already started with the Investigato...

Ever since the Sudan civil war in 2013 and the government in South Sudan has been gradually tightening internet access, especially on those websites related to news or politics. The latest blocks have been reported by phone internet users trying to access Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj. This was first reported on July 17. The blocking of these 2 websites was ordered by the National Communications Authority and its justification for this is that these websites’ reporting...

China continues its chain of internet censorship crackdowns, this time the target is Whatsapp. Today, Whatsapp users in China have been having problems using the app to share photos, videos or even text their peers.  “According to the analysis that we ran today on WhatsApp’s infrastructure, it seems that the Great Firewall is imposing censorship that selectively targets WhatsApp functionalities,” said Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, ...

Many telecommunications and broadband companies falsely advertise unlimited data packages to their customers. Unlimited data plans have to be one of the most banal myths among internet users. If you subscribe to an unlimited data plan, you will be provided with 25GB, for example, and as per terms and conditions, your data provider follows what is called “Fair Usage Policy”, in which it has the right to throttle your connection speed if you hit a certain data limit. ...

Overwhelming sadness has come over Pandora subscribers in Australia and New Zealand as the popular music streaming service has confirmed shutting down its operations in the land down under on July 31, 2017. Pandora is one of the most popular free music streaming services on the internet that was launched in 2005. Subscribers can create custom or personalised radio stations based on their favourite songs or artists. When you use Pandora, you have a chance to create play...

Last week the world was struck by a vicious ransomware attack, dubbed as “Petya” which has been worming its way at a terrifying speed. Petya is still spreading by taking advantage of a Windows vulnerability which should have been patched by Microsoft last March.

China’s popular video-sharing platforms, like: Bilibili, ACFun and Weibo have suddenly pulled out a lot of popular foreign TV from their websites which caused a massive shock and frustration among viewers.

It looks like Apple is cracking down on root certificate/VPN-based adblock applications that are developed to block ads in third party apps. It is reported that Apple would only permit first-party ad blockers promoted via Safari.