VPN - virtual private networks and Encryption and Cybersecurity
ATT: Apple’s App Tracking Transparency - Data and Social Media, Facebook: Privacy, Security
Amazon - privacy, security, surveillance issues
AI, Surveillance and Privacy - regulation, policy, guardrails
Mozilla Firefox - Internet Browser
Cookies - Data and Social Media, Privacy, Security
Life360 - privacy issues and location-tracking app for parents, kids
A collection of articles and videos about Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)
A collection of articles and videos about Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Privacy, AI and facial recognition, surveillance
Vaccine Passports - Travel, Testing, Privacy issues and COVID19 - Coronavirus
IPFS and the Future of the Internet
Amazon Alexa - privacy, security, surveillance issues
Elections and Social Media
Tech + Government: Military, Funding and Silicon Valley
Public WiFi hotspots - getting access to the internet while traveling - security issues
Elections and Facebook: Privacy, Security
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements (2024)
After marathon 'final' talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based A... (2023)
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
Rewind is launching a Mac desktop app. When you search for a given term, you see every occurrence wherever it happened, as well as what else was op... (2022)
An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring pr... (2022)
In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums. (2022)
The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10m for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. (2022)
Life360 is acquiring Bluetooth tracking device maker Tile. A report by The Markup highlights how Life360 sells user data for millions of dollars. C... (2021)
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Eileen Guo is an Ida B. Wells Fellow, and is being co-published by MIT Tec... (2021)
A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware... (2021)
Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted mess... (2021)
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users' entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the ... (2021)
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its... (2021)
A growing number of tools now let you stop facial recognition systems from training on your personal photos (2021)
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. (2021)
Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explo... (2021)
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr... (2021)
The DNA profiling company said it challenged the requests, which were later withdrawn. (2021)
When acting Danish finance minister Morten Bødskov announced last week that Denmark would soon launch a digital “corona passport,” the news spread ... (2021)
Civil liberties groups have criticized the use of these dragnet search warrants. The search warrant compelled Google to provide police with the ... (2021)
Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. Since some major websites like Wikipedia have IPFS versions, users in oppressiv... (2021)
How to reduce tracking, block ads, and encrypt all the things. (2021)
With end-to-end encryption, disappearing messages, and no data collection, there's a lot to love about this privacy-oriented messaging app. (2021)
The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy. (2021)
Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so ... (2020)
Democrats blast FTC/Zoom settlement because users won't get compensation. (2020)
"This is really a textbook example of fair use," said the EFF. (2020)
The House and Senate are both pushing forward with the so-called “EARN IT” Act, a bill that will undermine encryption and free speech online. Attor... (2020)
Look at this freaking drone. (2020)
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its ser... (2020)
With large majorities of all children (70% in the U.S. and U.K.) staying home from school during the COVID-19 crisis, use of digital media properti... (2020)
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
When your rating matters... (2019)
LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)
If you're not paying, you're not the customer--you're the product. (2018)
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Today’s episode is all about crypto security — that is, the new mindsets and the new strategie... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)
Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) after four years of preparation and ... (2018)