Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, has forced an ultimatum upon WhatsApp ’s users:
share future transactional data and metadata from the end-to-end encrypted
messenger with Facebook, or lose access to your WhatsApp account.
Users are being informed of
The saying goes that if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product. As
a Facebook, Google, or Twitter user, it’s easy to think of yourself as the
customer. But there’s a reason why you get access to these attractive and
user-friendly servic
Late Tuesday night, a US congressional subcommittee investigating the major tech
companies for anti-competitive practices released its much-anticipated report.
The document, over 400 pages long, describes an internet that is highly
centralized around
Over the past several years, data retention laws have become more and more
popular in European countries. These require internet service providers, telecom
companies, and online platforms to store metadata about their users, making it
much easier for
The number of Google searches in all languages for a privacy-focused Gmail
alternative (e.g., “private email” or “encrypted email”) increased 39 percent
worldwide between May 2019 and April 2020.
This surge in interest is a promising sign that onli
On Wednesday, the CEOs of four massive tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,
and Amazon — testified before a congressional investigation about those
companies’ anti-competitive practices.
The CEOs were eager to portray their companies as under c
Wednesday, July 29, is an important day for the future of the Internet. At noon
local time in Washington, DC, the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google
will appear virtually before US lawmakers who are investigating their companies
for illegal
TikTok, the video-sharing platform owned by the Chinese social media giant
ByteDance, is one of the most popular social media services in the world, with
an estimated 800 million users. However, its zealous data collection, use of
Chinese infrastruct
The United States Congress is considering a law that would destroy online
privacy as we know it and essentially outlaw the most secure American tech
products, such as Signal. The law would ban end-to-end encryption for large
companies and require dev
The governing body of Hong Kong rushed approval of Article 43, which grants
sweeping powers to Hong Kong law enforcement, including the ability to intercept
private communications and censor online media without a warrant. These
regulations specify t
Last week, the European Commission announced, in response to a complaint filed
by Spotify, that it would be opening an investigation into Apple’s App Store
practices, which potentially constitutes an illegal breach of EU competition
laws. At Proton,
