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War censorship exposes Putin’s leaky internet controls

President Vladimir Putin was attempting to make Russia’s internet a strong tool of surveillance and social control, similar to China’s so-called Great Firewall, long before waging war on Ukraine. As a result, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov was frightened when Western tech corporations began breaking relations with Russia following its invasion. He’d spent years exposing …

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2FA provider secretly also provides surveillance through telecommunications network

Twitter appears to be distancing themselves from their two-factor authentication provider, Mitto AG, following recent controversy regarding Mitto AG’s COO selling access to their network to surveillance companies.

Surveillance vs Privacy: How much is too much?

On January 11, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Bulgaria’s laws on secret surveillance violated its citizens right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Human Rights Convention. Furthermore, when citizens asked about whether they had been subjected to surveillance, they received an insufficient response. Because of this, Bulgaria must …

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