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As users turn to VPNs to access pornography, experts warn collection of information creates a ‘honeytrap’ for bad actors Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen porn sites began blocking Australians from access, it also meant X …
Kremlin appearing to ramp up control over internet, as it tests new ‘whitelist’ restrictions and pushes people to state-owned appMuscovites have been turning to walkie-talkies and pagers amid unexplained disruptions to internet services in the capital,…
Exclusive: Technology secretary urges tech companies to do more to tackle online misogynyMinisters need to act more quickly to combat fast-changing threats from technology such as deepfakes, the technology secretary has said, as she warned about the ri…
Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolificElon Musk’s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the “massive” scale of attempts to manipulate the platf…
AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disastersLiverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Mun…
Digital censorship analysts argue current outage is mostly about survival and control for the country’s rulersUS-Israel war on Iran – live updatesRoughly four hours after the first strikes hit Iran, the country was again plunged into a full internet bl…
Trials to form part of three-month consultation on Keir Starmer’s plans to tackle negative effects of smartphone useHundreds of teenagers will be enlisted to trial social media bans in the coming months with overnight digital curfews and daily screen t…
Iran experienced a near-total internet blackout as Israel and the U.S. launched strikes, according to NetBlocks. Internet access across Iran was drastically reduced on Saturday as Israel and the United States carried out strikes against the country, according to independent and non-partisan global internet monitor NetBlocks. Network data indicated a near-total nationwide blackout. The national […]
Ofcom says that after provisional ruling it could apply to courts to demand internet providers stop access to siteA suicide forum linked to deaths in Britain has been ruled provisionally in breach of the Online Safety Act after it failed to properly bl…
Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was not merely blocking social media or foreign websites; it was a total communications shutdown.
Unlike previous Iranian internet shutdowns where Iran’s domestic intranet—the National Information Network (NIN)—remained functional to keep the banking and administrative sectors running, the 2026 blackout …