The number of data requests the US government sent to Google has increased 510%
since 2010. US government requests to Facebook have also increased 364% since
the beginning of 2013. The databases of private companies are increasingly being
used to mon
Zoom has seen a flood of new users as the COVID-19 outbreak forces more and more
employees to transition to working from home. Zoom’s big selling point is its
near-frictionless video calls.
However, new users should be aware of the company’s privacy
On Monday, Vice’s Motherboard broke yet another story revealing the extent to
which companies are monetizing their users.
Reporter Joseph Cox’s investigation revealed how Edison, an email productivity
app, is scraping users’ personal inboxes for pur
The European Commission recently submitted proposals for new rules governing how
e-evidence is gathered by law enforcement agencies. E-evidence would include
things like emails, messages, and other data related to a possible crime or
investigation. I
Aug. 7, 2019 update: The government has reversed its surveillance strategy,
claiming the whole program was a “test” that is now complete, according to
Reuters. If you installed a government root certificate on your device, you may
now uninstall it wi
WITHOUT END-TO-END ENCRYPTION, GMAIL CONFIDENTIAL MODE IS LITTLE MORE THAN A
MARKETING STRATEGY. LEARN WHY PRIVACY EXPERTS CALL GOOGLE’S PRIVACY FEATURES
“MISLEADING.”
When we launched Proton Mail nearly five years ago, we pioneered a new kind of
em
PROTON MAIL HAS JOINED 23 OTHER TECH COMPANIES TO ENDORSE THE PRIVACY FOR ALL
ACT OF 2019, WHICH WOULD GIVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE MORE CONTROL OVER THEIR DATA.
We want everyone to have access to online privacy and security. It’s why we
created Proton M
One such organization is Charter’97, the most popular independent news outlet in
Belarus. We spoke with their award-winning editor-in-chief, Natalya Radina.
Edit March 12, 2019: The auction ended on December 24th, 2018.
This holiday season, we ar
On Thursday, the Australian government and its Labor partners rammed a
shockingly invasive anti-encryption law through Parliament, over the objections
of experts, businesses, and civil rights groups.
The Assistance and Access (A&A) law requires tech
UPDATE Dec. 3, 2020: A second member of the Apophis Squad, Timothy Dalton
Vaughan, pleaded guilty in US federal court to sending bomb threats to thousands
of schools in the UK and US, launching numerous distributed denial-of-service
attacks and for p
The goal of our OpenPGPjs project is to make public-key cryptography not only
available to users, but also to the global developer community. We believe the
widespread availability of open-source and secure cryptography libraries is a
prerequisite of
