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Ciao ciao AirVPN, grazie Piracy Shield

AirVPN is discontinuing service in Italy due to the “Italian Piracy Shield,” a regulatory framework mandating IP and DNS blocking with no judicial review, which private entities oversee. The system has been criticized for potential rights violations and error-prone procedures. Thus, AirVPN cannot operate within this framework without compromising its mission and service quality. The company withdraws to maintain operations integrity and offers advice and support for alternatives such as the Tor network.

Shrems II, Data transfer, and the USA: wheels are rolling.

Probably everyone now has, at least, heard about the EJC sentence called Shrems III that basically rules out the possibility to use Privacy Shield infamous agreement to allow data transfer between EU and USA based on the fact that the USA does not provide enough guarantees EU data will be protected. If you don’t know (but you should) here my previous article: https://thepuchiherald.com/2020/07/17/ops-privacy-shield-bye-bye/ After the sentence one of the question was: what now? Will a Grace period be offered to survive this? (lot of companies were transferring data using privacy shield to USA) And most of all does SCC will…

Privacy Shield just born already dead

The new move coming from the other side of the Ocean (and yes I mean the USA) is aligned with Mr. Trump approach to international agreements. After the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump’s presidency is shining again in its confrontation with old Europe. The target now is the Privacy Shield Agreement, the agreement that has been reached between the USA and EU in order to protect the privacy of EU citizens whose data are collected by the USA company. It should not comes out as a surprise, historically the two sides of the ocean have had a deep different approach…

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