On September 28, Signal summarized on its blog what has changed in the world of backups over the past year.

On September 29, representatives of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU met for the sixth political round of negotiations…

The first two installments of the Privacy Library were devoted to the phrases people usually use to wrap up a debate about privacy.

The previous installment ended with the idea that having your own domain is the first step toward being able to leave at any time.

Most people associate Tor with the Tor Browser. However, the Tor network can also protect other applications, or even an entire…

According to the current plan, negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, and the European Commission will meet today in Brussels.

In early September, I wrote that GrapheneOS was expanding beyond the Pixel lineup. At the time, the project announced that the first supported Motorola phone would arrive…

When we talk about digital sovereignty in Europe, we tend to view it as a European problem. It isn’t.

This is the first installment in a four-part series on having your own domain. It is published every Friday.

By December 24, 2026, each member state must offer its residents at least one European digital identity wallet.

On September 2, the German organization Stiftung Warentest published a comprehensive test of email services.

The Italian group Autistici/Inventati announced its dissolution on September 6, eleven days after the United States placed it on a sanctions list.

I recently wrote that with Swiss services, it's not so much about where the servers are located as it is about…

In April, I wrote here about the end of Dmail Network, and a week later I asked whether the whole concept…

When I wrote about monitoring Serbian civil society, I mentioned only in passing that the scope of the entire wave was beginning to take shape…

Anyone in Europe looking for a service that prioritizes privacy often ends up in Switzerland.

In my overview of email privacy in the U.S. and Canada, I introduced the Toronto-based company Thexyz as an independent provider of ad-free paid email…

On September 6, the Italian group Autistici/Inventati announced that it was ceasing operations and shutting down all of its services.

On September 2, the Swiss Federal Chancellery launched a program to build a sovereign office environment based on open-source software.

Imagine a router that a manufacturer released in 2022 and hasn't released a single update for since then.

In July, I wrote here about the OpenAI and Anthropic models that escaped from an isolated environment during internal testing and attacked…

Anyone who wants to run GrapheneOS today has to buy a Google Pixel phone. They can't choose any other brand, because the secure system isn't officially available anywhere else…

The first installment of the „Library of Privacy“ series focused on the phrase „I have nothing to hide." Today, it's the turn of its counterpart, which is heard just as often: "I…

In June, I wrote here about an industry that sells governments the ability to hack into anyone’s phone. At the time, it involved a lawsuit

The Spanish company Internxt launched its own email service, Internxt Mail, this week. On the map of European alternatives that I’m gradually putting together here,

On Wednesday, August 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of State and the Department of the Treasury announced that they were adding the Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) to the

Today, the average user communicates via three to five different apps. WhatsApp with family, Messenger with colleagues from a previous job, Telegram

Do you use Gmail, Microsoft 365, or another U.S. service? If so, there’s a question that most people have never even considered. Who

Fairphone unveiled the Gen. 6+ on August 18. As a new device announcement, it’s one of the least exciting events of the year. More recent

This series began in Europe with Proton and Tuta, continued with Mailfence, mailbox.org, StartMail, Posteo, and Soverin, and most recently headed

Imagine you want to buy a bottle of wine from an online store and you have to prove that you're at least 18 years old.

Is it even possible to use artificial intelligence while also protecting privacy? At first glance, this seems like a contradiction. AI assistants are

In discussions about alternative phones, two distinct concerns are often conflated. The first is privacy—that is, what data the phone collects, and from whom

The Cirrux project was launched in 2025, and the platform itself went live late last year. Outside the Netherlands, there have been reports about it so far

Almost every tech website wrote about the partnership between USA Today Co. and Palantir last week. Most of the articles rightly

Anthropic has begun watermarking the output of its models. Claude models released on or after August 2, 2026, embed an invisible

You may have heard that „Web3 is over.“ Or, conversely, that blockchain will completely transform everything from banking to healthcare. The reality is more sobering

In my July article on small European providers of AI assistants, I divided autonomy into four levels. The company answers the question of who

In this series on privacy-focused email services, I’ve so far written exclusively about Europe—about Proton and Tuta, about Mailfence and

In early August 2026, security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk published an interesting finding, which they described in a technical analysis. They found

The Swiss company Proton, known for its Proton Mail, VPN, Drive, and Pass password manager services, appears to be developing its own web browser. It has not announced

Linux phones have undergone a significant transformation since winter: Jolla began shipping its new phone, Furi Labs released an updated version of its model, Pine64

On July 13, 2026, Fastmail announced a new location in Amsterdam. It published a detailed description on its blog on August 3. Users will

When the Hugging Face team was investigating the July breach of its infrastructure, it needed to feed actual malicious code to its AI models. Commercial

Anyone who has ever spoken out about digital privacy is familiar with that phrase. You hear it at dinner, over coffee at work, or online

The shift away from Microsoft products is no longer a rare experiment in European public administration. Some agencies are switching to Linux and LibreOffice, while others

Thirteen years after the launch of the original Jolla Phone, the Finnish company Jolla unveiled its successor. The phone was announced on December 5, 2025, and

On July 27, 2026, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, known as the Digital Omnibus on artificial intelligence, entered into force. Most headlines about it

Firefox 153 was released on July 21, 2026, and introduced a change that, at first glance, seems like a minor detail. Containers are isolated spaces

When you send an email, save a photo, or make a call over the Internet today, it's quite likely that your data is traveling through servers