Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook’s access to her location in every way that she can. She has turned off…
In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook promised users a tool that would give them back some…
Courtesy of the New York Times, we just got another reminder of how invasive location tracking through apps can…
Should we hold companies like Equifax and Facebook responsible for the protection of our personal information in the…
Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real…
House Republicans spent 14 months investigating the 2017 Equifax breach only to reach the same conclusions that…
While you probably already know enabling location services for third-party apps might compromise your privacy, an…
The Secret Service is testing a facial recognition system in public areas of the White House and surrounding grounds…
Google’s Project Dragonfly, the controversial project for a censored search product for China, has sparked two separate…
In April, Mark Zuckerberg told a congressional hearing, “I can’t be clearer on this topic: We don’t sell data.” But…
The British Parliament has seized internal Facebook documents in “an extraordinary attempt to hold the U.S. social…
Facebook’s scandals in recent memory have included reckless sharing of user data with third parties like the…
Updated: 11/13/2018, 9:50 p.m. ET: Looks like it was a glitch. In a statement to Gizmodo, a Google spokesperson wrote:
Earlier this year, Cloudflare launched it’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service, and now it’s available for free on iOS and Android.…
By the time it was clear the fallout from the Equifax breach reached roughly three-fourths of adult Americans,…
The nation’s most vocal privacy advocate in the U.S. Senate is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this…
More than a century ago, a teenager named Abigail Roberson had her photo taken at a professional studio in upstate New…
You’ve probably cleared your local browser history before. Maybe you did it just moments ago. Perhaps you didn’t want…
It’s increasingly difficult to expect privacy when you’re browsing online, so a non-profit in the UK is working to…
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