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Now playing: Watch this: VPN explained: A privacy primer — with robots and race… 1:39 Russia has become the latest country to declare war on VPNs. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that prohibits the use of virtual private networks and anonymizers, Reuters reported Sunday. The new law is intended to prevent access to …

Now playing: Watch this: VPN explained: A privacy primer — with robots and race… 1:39 China has been cracking down on virtual private networks, which enable people to get around the country’s infamous internet filter dubbed the Great Firewall. Now, Apple is removing VPN apps from its China App Store. ExpressVPN said Saturday it received a letter from Apple saying …

Last week, we’d heard that China was cracking down on virtual private networks (VPNs), when one such popular VPN reported that the government had shut it down. But now, it appears that China is ordering the country’s three biggest cellular carriers — indeed, three of the biggest cellular carriers in the world — to block users from accessing VPNs in …

China’s clamping down on users who rely on virtual private networks (VPN) to break free of its notorious internet filter. Dubbed the Great Firewall, the filter blocks access to news sites deemed undesireable by the Chinese government as well as social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, platforms the Chinese government has no control over. To bypass the restrictions, …

On this week’s Girt by CNET, Luke has tasted of the sleep science kool-aid, and extols the virtues of a full eight hours. After trying out the new Fitbit Alta HR this week, the team talks fitness tracking, wearable wish lists and training for explosive power. And it wouldn’t be a Girt episode if we didn’t talk about metadata. With …

TPG wants to be your mobile provider, and it’s spending AU$1.9 billion to prove it. The internet service provider has previously sold SIM-only data plans, but it had to rely on Vodafone for physical infrastructure. That’s all going to change, after TPG successfully won a bid at Australia’s recent spectrum auction. TPG spent $1.26 billion to secure 2x10MHz of mobile …

Now playing: Watch this: VPN explained: A privacy primer — with robots and race… 1:39 Enlarge Image Interest in VPNs hit a five-year high after Congress voted to kill FCC internet privacy rules. Screenshot by CNET Your internet service provider can sell your browsing history to the highest bidder. That’s the creepy truth internet users in the US woke up …

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Now playing: Watch this: What the repeal of internet privacy rules means to you 2:26 Obama-era rules designed to regulate how broadband companies handle your private information online are on their way out. As of Tuesday, both houses of Congress have voted to repeal regulations adopted last year by the Federal Communications Commission. The next step is a signature from …

It seems Pinterest has now joined Facebook and Twitter as another popular media site that’s blocked in China. The popular scrapbooking site hasn’t been accessible in China for the past seven days, according to GreatFire.org. The censorship monitoring organization aims to bring transparency to China’s Great Firewall, a tool Chinese government uses to keep its citizen from accessing certain part …