What’s the Deal With Anti-Cheat Software in Online Games?
In the past decade, big competitive online games, especially first-person shooters like Activision-Blizzard’s Call of Duty and Bungie’s Destiny 2, have had […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad
“There are a couple of improvements in Topics,” says Hamed Haddadi, chief scientist at Brave, a privacy-focused browser and search engine. He […]
Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning
Because Google could access data in plain text, the data wasn’t protected from potential surveillance, the body’s decision says. “This transfer was […]
How Apple’s iCloud Private Relay Can Keep You Safe
If you pay for iCloud storage, then you automatically have access to the extra perks that Apple bundles together under the iCloud+ […]
Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World
When Apple pushed iOS 15 out to more than a billion devices in September, the software update included the company’s first VPN-like […]
How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report
The second section shows network activity, meaning which web domains your apps have reached out to in the past seven days. The […]
6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet
Depending on when you were born, there’s a good chance you’ve spent either several decades online or have never known an offline […]
Meta Ousts 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms
For years, surveillance-for-hire companies have quietly used Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp as springboards to target people in more than 100 countries. Today, […]
The Biggest Deepfake Abuse Site Is Growing in Disturbing Ways
Analysis from an independent researcher tracking the websites, who does not want to be named, due to the sensitive subject nature, says […]
Russia’s Internet Censorship Machine Is Going After Tor
At the start of December, the Tor Project’s support email inbox began receiving an unusual number of messages from users saying they […]