Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times
Canadian investigators determined that users of the Tim Hortons coffee chain’s mobile app “had their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
The Fight Against Robocall Spam and Scams Heats Up in India
Indian phone users may not have to wonder who that “unknown” caller is for too much longer. Regulatory changes being considered might […]
The Race to Hide Your Voice
Second, Tomashenko says, researchers are looking at distributed and federated learning—where your data doesn’t leave your device but machine learning models still […]
You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP
May has been another busy month of security updates, with Google’s Chrome browser and Android operating system, Zoom, and Apple’s iOS releasing […]
DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Think
After another week of dismally tragic news and moral failures by the powerful, it’s good to know that you can at least […]
What Do Those Pesky ‘Cookie Preferences’ Pop-Ups Really Mean?
As part of GDPR, companies based outside Europe can be hit with enormous fines if they track and analyze EU visitors to […]
Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal
More than 40 Democratic members of Congress called on Google to stop collecting and retaining customer location data that prosecutors could use […]
‘How Are They Weapons? That’s Only a Flashlight!’
By late August, as the government continued to stonewall the protesters’ growing demands, many young people became more desperate. They routinely relied […]
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
Since its founding in 2014, ProtonMail has become synonymous with user-friendly encrypted email. Now the company is trying to be synonymous with […]
The Surveillance State Is Primed for Criminalized Abortion
In the three weeks since a draft opinion leaked from the United States Supreme Court promising to roll back the federal constitutional […]