MegaNet - Kim Dotcom's Decentralized Internet Powered by Smartphones

MegaNet - Kim Dotcom's Decentralized Internet Powered by Smartphones

If you been ardently following our news updates, then you would have come across an article published last week about CISA and how it is going to impact the privacy of individuals not just in the United States but across the world. FURTHER READING: Right to Privacy, What Is That? - CISA. CISA is going to affect the privacy of most of the internet users across the world because of a simple reason - Most of the email and chat service providers except for a handful are based out of the United States and a majority of the computers and smartphones either run on operating systems created by....


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