Privacy Deep Dives
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We’re living in the middle of one of the largest tech gold rushes in recent
history. OpenAI’s chatbot reached 100 million users in two months. Hoping to
keep up, Google introduced its own AI chatbot, and Microsoft added a chatbot to
its Bing search e
- Privacy Deep Dives
With over 33 million registered users and more than 100,000 business customers,
LastPass is one of the world’s most popular password managers. After an
escalating series of highly-damaging disclosures over the last few months,
LastPass has now admitt
- Privacy Deep Dives
If you’ve ever stored documents or images on the internet, then you’ve relied on
cloud encryption to keep your files safe. Proton Drive, Dropbox, Google Photos,
and iCloud are all examples of cloud storage services that use some form of
encryption to
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- Privacy News
On October 28, 2021, Facebook announced the rebranding of its parent company
from Facebook to Meta. Since then, the term “metaverse” has been a hot topic of
discussion.
From facial expressions to biometric data, the metaverse has the potential to
c
- Privacy Deep Dives
DNA companies are using, sharing, and profiting from millions of people’s
genetic data in ways they can’t always control.
Genetic testing companies have become very popular in the last decade as people
seek to find out who they are and where their a
- Privacy Deep Dives
Fingerprinting is a way to identify you on the internet and can be very hard to
prevent. In this article, we discuss what fingerprinting is, and how to reduce
your fingerprint.
* What is browser fingerprinting?
* What is device fingerprinting?
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In 2017, hackers stole the private financial records of some 156 million people
from servers belonging to Equifax, while the 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica
scandal revealed how personal data belonging to up to 87 million Facebook users
was harvest
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USB peripherals (commonly known as “flash drives”), memory cards, and external
hard drives all make backing up and sharing your data simple. And they are
becoming more critical as modern-day schooling, work, and life are increasingly
awash in data. B
- Privacy Basics
- Privacy Deep Dives
From Hong Kong to Minneapolis, protesters around the world are standing up for
their human rights. The right to peaceful assembly and protest are bedrocks of
democracy, and we support everyone’s ability to exercise these rights. We
created Proton Mai
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- Privacy News
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
- Privacy Basics
- Privacy Deep Dives
Whenever you send or receive information on the Internet, it passes through a
network of multiple computers to reach the destination. Historically, any of
these computers could read your data, because it was not encrypted.
Much of this data is quite