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 […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
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 […]
How GDPR Is Failing
The French data regulator has, in some ways, sidestepped the international GDPR process by directly pursuing companies’ use of cookies. Despite common […]
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Facebook
When it comes to Facebook, most of us will have a contacts list covering years and even decades of our lives—recent acquaintances […]
Android 13 Tries to Make Privacy and Security a No-Brainer
Android already limited how much access apps had to the clipboard and notified users when an app grabbed something from it. But […]
The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse
“That being so, there is only one logical solution: client-side scanning where the content is examined when it is decrypted on the […]
Thousands of Top Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit
When you sign up for a newsletter, make a hotel reservation, or check out online, you probably take for granted that if […]