Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
As smartphone apps track our every move, a group of technologists in the US and UK this week offered guidelines for the […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Privacy-First Browser Brave Is Launching a Search Engine
Google’s grip on the web has never been stronger. Its Chrome web browser has almost 70 percent of the market and its […]
How to Tell Which Emails Quietly Track You
Everyone sends emails now: political parties, your book club, freelance journalists, the social networks you’re signed up to, your parents, that online […]
Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud
For years, simple setup errors have been a major source of exposure when companies keep data in the cloud. Instead of carefully […]
Microsoft’s Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
For years, tech companies have touted blockchain technology as a means to develop identity systems that are secure and decentralized. The goal […]
Clubhouse’s Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth
Clubhouse did not respond to a request from WIRED for comment by press time about its recent security stumbles. In a statement […]
There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain
One afternoon in the fall of 2019, in a grand old office building near the Arc de Triomphe, I was buzzed through […]
Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don’t Turn to Telegram
Last weekend, Raphael Mimoun hosted a digital security training workshop via videoconference with a dozen activists. They belonged to one Southeast Asian […]
A Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos
When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised […]
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone’s Encryption
The main difference between Complete Protection and AFU relates to how quick and easy it is for applications to access the keys […]