Google Chrome Is Getting a Bunch of New Privacy Features
Google’s Chrome web browser is the world’s most popular way for people to navigate the web. But it’s far from perfect. Google’s […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
5 Simple Ways to Make Your Gmail Inbox Safer
Gmail even works offline now, which is great for those times when you’ve got a spotty internet connection, but perhaps not so […]
Facebook Messenger Adds Safety Alerts—Even in Encrypted Chats
For the last year, governments around the world have pressured Facebook to abandon its plans for end-to-end encryption across its apps, arguing […]
How to Avoid Spam—Using Disposable Contact Information
Wherever we go on the web, we’re asked to sign up for new accounts—for streaming platforms, app trials, delivery services, and so […]
How to Set Your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to Control Who Sees What
On Instagram, you can block comments on both your public photo feed and your stories. From settings in the app, tab either […]
India’s Covid-19 Contact Tracing App Could Leak Patient Locations
As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps that can help track the spread of Covid-19, privacy advocates have cautioned […]
Google and Apple Reveal How Covid-19 Alert Apps Might Look
Finding out that you’ve been exposed to a serious disease through a push notification may still seem like something out of dystopian […]
Apple and Google Respond to Covid-19 Contact Tracing Concerns
They may want to do so to make the system more efficient, argued cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the popular encrypted communications […]
How Apple and Google Are Enabling Covid-19 Bluetooth Contact-Tracing
Since Covid-19 began its spread across the world, technologists have proposed using so-called contact-tracing apps to track infections via smartphones. Now, Google […]
The Best and Worst Browsers for Privacy, Ranked
Microsoft Edge received the lowest privacy rating in a recently published study, which compared the user information collected by major browsers. Yandex, […]