We recently announced that Proton Pass now supports passkeys for everyone across
all devices.
Universal compatibility is a unique approach to implementing passkeys,
unfortunately. Even though passkeys were developed by the FIDO Alliance and the
Worl
Apple’s marketing team has built a powerful association between the iPhone and
privacy. The company’s ad campaigns claim that “what happens on your iPhone,
stays on your iPhone.” And, “Privacy. That’s iPhone.”
But Apple’s lawyers are telling a diffe
There’s a saying that data is the new oil because of how valuable it is to the
digital economy. But what’s the value of your data, personally? Depending where
you live, information about you could be worth at least several hundred dollars
a year to F
The biggest new threat to privacy in 2023 wasn’t any surveillance program. It
was the false advertising Big Tech companies use to trick people into thinking
their products are private.
Like oil companies claiming fossil fuels are “green”, Google, Ap
Update April 4, 2024
In December 2023, Google agreed to a settlement with the plaintiffs in this
case, the day before it was set to go to trial. And on April 1, 2024, the terms
of that agreement were made public.
The settlement terms reveal the tru
In the public eye, Google presents itself as a champion of privacy. “Privacy is
at the heart of everything we do,” its CEO said.
But behind closed doors, Google is telling a different story to policymakers and
actively fighting against privacy laws
Google has already taken privacy washing to the extreme by trying to brand
itself as “privacy focused”, even though its business model is based on
surveillance.
Lately, the company’s marketing strategy has turned toward outright Orwellian
doublespe
Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser by far, with over 3
billion users. Its built-in password manager, Google Password Manager, is its
default software to create and store passwords for websites and services.
Although convenient for
OpenPGP, the standard defining how to encrypt and sign messages using PGP, the
most widely used email encryption format, received a major upgrade, introducing
various security improvements and more modern cryptographic algorithms.
PGP has been used
With over 4 billion active users and around 350 million messages sent daily,
email is the most successful communications tool ever invented. Yet, it has
probably been 15 or 20 years since email has primarily been about
communications.
Today, email i
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
