Some governments do not like private citizen using VPNs to hide their online activities and protect their privacy. Here is an opinion piece from Ashley Belanger on Ars Technica discussing this: Fighting VPN criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say | Ars Technica
Your privacy is important
The UK Government wants to legislate against end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for online communications – so law enforcement can monitor your and criminals’ online communications. I have written about this a lot – as I think the privacy of law abiding citizens is important and law enforcement should use the current laws, …
Breaking encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of our security and privacy online. Without it you could not shop online using your credit card or have a private conversation. Encryption is is encoding of your information using computational methods – the more complicated the computations the more secure the encryption is. But …
Now this is a good idea…
The government’s Online Safety Bill has good points – online safety for everyone especially the vulnerable – and bad points – reducing the privacy of law abiding citizens is no way to combat serious crime – make sure you know how it could impact you. Forgetting the party political message …
Google adds end-to-end encryption
The UK Government does not like the ordinary citizen to have uncontrolled access to end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but others like it – like Google: Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web (bleepingcomputer.com) See what I have to say about closing public toilets as an amendment to the UK …