Apple, Google call on Obama to reject cryptographic backdoors

Data security
Tech companies and civil liberties organizations joined forces today to ask President Obama to reject any effort to mandate backdoors into security products. Such efforts are doomed to failure — and could harm both the US economy and its reputation abroad.

Russia might ban Tor and virtual private networks

Kremlin
The Kremlin is rumored to be prepping new restrictions that would block the use of Tor and VPNs inside Russia. Russia has been increasingly antagonistic towards these services in the past 12 months, and funded research to block or break them.