Privacy deep dives
Google, along with several other Big Tech companies, are now trying to claim
they are concerned about the state of privacy on the internet. Google’s CEO even
wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times saying, “privacy must be equally
available to
- Privacy deep dives
The dark web is much like the regular World Wide Web we’re all familiar with,
except that the dark web provides much greater privacy.
The dark web has a reputation for being a place where you can find and contact
drug dealers and hitmen. There’s tru
- Privacy deep dives
A new social media app has entered the marketplace for your attention, courtesy
of Meta. Threads, an apparent copycat of Twitter, lets you post 500-character,
text-based updates and has a similar user interface. The app is part of
Instagram, so you c
- Privacy deep dives
Many people who use Apple products assume their data is private because of the
company’s aggressive marketing on the topic.
“Some things shouldn’t be shared. iPhone helps keep it that way,” goes one
famous ad. “Privacy. That’s iPhone.”
But if you u
- Privacy deep dives
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
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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- Privacy deep dives
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