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The Splinternet Hits America: Why Wisconsin and Michigan Want to Ban Your VPN

“Politicians who can’t tell the difference between a security tool and a ‘loophole’ shouldn’t be writing laws about the internet.” — Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We have warned about this. First, they came for the porn sites with age verification laws. Then, they came for the social media platforms. Now, seeing that users have simply… Read more.

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The Great Firewall of Pakistan: How It Is Hunting Down Your VPN

For months, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been threatening to pull the plug on “unregistered” virtual private networks. They gave deadlines, issued vague threats, and promised a streamlined registration process for legitimate businesses. As of January 2026, the grace period is over. The hammer has officially dropped. If you are using a VPN to… Read more.

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What Does a VPN Hide?

If you were to walk down a busy city street shouting your home address, social security number, and a list of your medical conditions through a megaphone, people would think you’ve lost your mind. Yet, this is effectively how most of us browse the internet. Without protection, your data travels across the public web “naked.”… Read more.

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The State of Torrenting in 2026: Why the “Dead” Protocol Is More Alive Than Ever

Remember the promise that streaming would solve piracy forever? The logic was sound: give people an affordable, convenient library of everything, and they will gladly put away their torrent clients. For a while, it worked. But we are in 2026 now, and the “Netflix and chill” era (in its original sense, of course) has morphed… Read more.

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ISP Throttling: Do VPNs Help Streaming?

It’s 7:30 p.m. on a Friday. You’ve just sat down with a pizza, fired up Netflix, and are ready to binge that new series everyone is talking about. You pay for a 500 Mbps connection—enough bandwidth to stream 4K video on ten screens simultaneously. Yet, the moment the opening credits roll, the quality drops to… Read more.

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Your AI Therapist Is Being Wiretapped: The Urban VPN Scandal

The evolution of the scam is almost poetic in its cruelty. We used to lose sleep over credit card theft or leaked passwords—tangible, yet replaceable losses. However, the new frontier of data theft isn’t your wallet; it’s your brain. If you’ve ever treated ChatGPT like a therapist, a senior engineer, or a confidant, you might… Read more.

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The UK Debates Age Checks for VPNs: Will It Protect Kids or Destroy Adult Privacy?

The United Kingdom is often viewed as a bellwether for internet regulation, and if the latest proposal from the House of Lords is any indication, the forecast is stormy. In a move that manages to be both technically illiterate and terrifyingly authoritarian, a cross-party group of Peers has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing… Read more.

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Is VPN Legal in Denmark? Why the Government’s Sudden U-Turn Isn’t the End of the Story

Denmark is often seen as a beacon of freedom, and for years, the answer to “Is VPN legal in Denmark?” was a simple “Yes.” But for a few tense days in December 2025, that certainty vanished.  The Danish Ministry of Culture had introduced a bill framed as a routine copyright update—a “modest” measure to stop… Read more.

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USA Digital ID and Online Age Verification: What Americans Should Know in 2025

If you’ve flown domestically recently, you might have noticed the signs (or the panic) leading up to May 7, 2025. That was the final REAL ID deadline, ending years of delays. But while most Americans were scrambling to find their birth certificates to get that gold star on their plastic card, a quieter, more technical… Read more.

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EU Digital ID and Age Verification: What Europeans Should Expect in 2025–26

The EU digital ID plan is in full swing—Europe is building an interoperable wallet network so your verified attributes (age, nationality, etc.) work across borders. And this is not some distant future but today’s reality: member states must make at least one EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) available to residents by the end of 2026…. Read more.