How to Safely Lend Someone Else Your Phone
From the nephew who wants to play games for a few minutes, to the friend who wants to see your vacation snaps, […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill
Under the new version of the ADPPA, Butler says, some forms of targeting would remain common, particularly targeting based on first-party data. […]
The DHS Bought a ‘Shocking Amount’ of Phone-Tracking Data
For years, people have wondered not if, but how much, the Department of Homeland Security accesses mobile location data to monitor US […]
The Most Popular Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy
This not only shifts the burden of risk assessment to individual users, but also makes evaluating the privacy and security of apps […]
Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants
The websites you visit can reveal (almost) everything about you. If you are looking up health information, reading about trade unions, or […]
A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
How this de-anonymization attack works is difficult to explain but relatively easy to grasp once you have the gist. Someone carrying out […]
A Privacy Panic Flares Up in India After Police Pull Payment Data
Prasanto K. Roy, a public policy consultant from New Delhi, is worried. In 2017 he began sending regular donations to the Indian […]
The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America
Motorola Solutions did not respond to a request for comment prior to publication. Stanley says that ALPRs are more concentrated in metropolitan […]
Apple’s Lockdown Mode Aims to Counter Spyware Threats
The surveillance-for-hire Industry has emerged in recent years as a very real threat to activists, dissidents, journalists, and human rights defenders around […]
End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense
Meanwhile, anti-encryption initiatives in the US, including proposed legislation like the Earn It Act, continue to pit law enforcement against technical protections. […]