Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
The Prüm II documents, dated from April 2021, when the plans were first being discussed, show the huge number of face photos […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Meta Tries to Break the End-to-End Encryption Deadlock
After years of tech companies and police fumbling and clashing over end-to-end encryption, Meta this week brandished a new tool in its […]
NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare
Venmo’s baffling decision to turn payments into a social media feed, where public transactions are the default, has rightly been met with […]
Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream
Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six […]
Forcing WhatsApp and iMessage to Work Together Is Doomed to Fail
The newest law designed to rein in Big Tech aims to make all your favorite messaging apps work seamlessly together. Sounds great, […]
Stop Tracking Your Loved Ones
“One of the biggest risks these technologies pose is they make us more neurotic,” says Pamela Wisniewski, an associate professor at the […]
The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain
This means that, despite the various options for making online payments, true digital cash doesn’t exist. This is not merely a theoretical […]
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Twitter
Perhaps more than any other social network, Twitter goes beyond family and friends to connect you to a global audience—it’s not unlike […]
NFTs Don’t Work the Way You Might Think They Do
To make matters more complicated, marketplaces are only one method of interacting with the blockchain, but anyone can do it. So even […]
How Police Abuse Phone Data to Persecute LGBTQ People
All the lawyers Rigot interviewed said police take data from WhatsApp, and 22 of the 29 legal cases included photos—some explicit—from galleries […]