Tag: VPN Privacy & Security
Surfsharks sends a graffiti artist from Shoreditch to teach you about the absurd simplicity of VPNs
If you – like many of us – have found yourself pondering whether to adopt a VPN lately, a visit to London’s Shoreditch on August 20 might well have cleared things up for you, once and for all. Strolling around BoxPark that day, you might have stumbled upon legendary local…
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Bluesky exits Mississippi over age verification row
Bluesky has decided to exit Mississippi in response to the new age verification law Under the law, social media platforms need to verify all users’ ages before granting them access People in Mississippi may be able to keep accessing Bluesky by spoofing their IP address with a VPN Bluesky has…
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Revealed: X knows where you are, but YouTube doesn’t care
Surfshark has conducted a review of location-hungry social media apps, including X, Instagram, and Snapchat Of the 10 social media apps analyzed, X demands the most granular location data Data was collected in August 2025 from the Apple App Store Think you’ve got your privacy covered? It could be time…
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Russia’s WhatsApp rival to be pre-installed on new smartphones and tablets from September – here’s what we know
Max, a Russia-developed messaging app, must be pre-installed on every new device from September 1 The domestic RuStore app store is also to be forced onto Apple devices, after already being mandatory on Android Authorities are reportedly considering blocking WhatsApp, today’s most popular messaging app in Russia A Russia-developed messaging…
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Is Proton leaving Switzerland? “legal uncertainty” of proposed surveillance laws is pushing them to make several changes
Proton said the company has begun moving some of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland for fear of the new proposed surveillance law Lumo, the company’s newly launched privacy-first AI chatbot, is the first product to move An amendment to the current surveillance law would require VPNs and messaging apps…
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ExpressVPN adds WireGuard to support industry transition to post-quantum VPNs
ExpressVPN now supports the WireGuard protocol in a bid to promote the industry’s post-quantum transition Resistance to WireGuard by ExpressVPN resulted in the development of its Lightway protocol Post-quantum WireGuard has been added to Windows, iOS, and Android ExpressVPN apps, with macOS to follow ExpressVPN has decided to embrace WireGuard…
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