Russia Is Leaking Data Like a Sieve
Names, birthdays, passport numbers, job titles—the personal information goes on for pages and looks like any typical data breach. But this data […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop
DuckDuckGo’s desktop apps have been in the works for some time. Burger-Lenehan says the company has been building the Mac app for […]
Inside the Takedown that Shredded the Myth of Crypto’s Anonymity
As responses from exchanges with those users’ identity information began to pour in, the team started the process of assembling more complete […]
The Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
As responses from exchanges with those users’ identity information began to pour in, the team started the process of assembling more complete […]
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 […]
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 […]