Just as What’s App began offering end-to-end encryption for its one billion plus users that effectively prevents anyone--including law enforcement--from reading users’ messages, members of the Senate floated the first draft of a bill aptly named "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016.” The bill seeks to require compliance with court orders for data.

As those who visit our home page may have noticed we have a section where we note the countries with the worst IP reputation. We divide it up between big countries and small ones and determine the relative badness by calculating the proportion of the country's reported IP addresses that are bad.