Consumer group Which? has warned shoppers to be selective when it comes to buying smart air fryers from Xiaomi, Cosori, and Aigostar…
The Massive Bipartisan Google Antitrust Suit Is a Fight for the Future of the Internet…
The Google antitrust case is about nothing less than the future of the internet and consumers’ data and privacy…
Hacker Allegedly Steals Personal Data of 1 Billion Chinese Citizens…
If confirmed, it would be one of the largest data breaches in history…
STUDY: 99% Of COVID-19 Data Websites Secretly Track Users…
The vast majority of governmental and COVID-19 tracking websites employ third-party trackers on users without consent, according to a new study…
Fury At Apple’s Plan to Scan iPhones for Child Abuse Images and Reporting ‘Flagged’ Owners to Police…
Apple said on Thursday it will scan US-based iPhones for images of child abuse…The move has drawn widespread criticism for rolling back on individual privacy…Messages app and iCloud photos will use on-device machine learning with a tool known as ‘neuralHash’ to look for sensitive content which can be reviewed…
Secret FBI Subpoenas for Personal Data Go Far Beyond Previously Known…
Secret subpoenas issued by the FBI for personal data go far deeper than previously known, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, according to the New York Times. The agency says the sweeping requests are crucial to counterterrorism efforts – however the new records […]
Avoid Surveillance with Helm, a Home Server Anyone Can Use to Keep Emails Truly Private…
During a group dinner in a small town in Norway in 2015, at an international conference for investigative journalists, a Ukrainian reporter told me that he used both Gmail and Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email provider. “Every time I write an email,” he said, “I have to decide if I want Obama to read it, […]
Edward Snowden Reconsidered…
This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet. It has been a long five years, and not a period marked by increased understanding, transparency, or control of our personal data. In these years, […]
I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It by Tim Berners-Lee…
Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries. In many ways, the web has lived up to this vision, though it has been a […]
And You Thought You Were Enjoying a TV Show in Privacy: Vizio Smart TVs Tracked Viewers Around the Clock Without Consent…
Vizio, one of the world’s biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them. According to a complaint filed Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission, Internet-connected TVs from Vizio contained ACR—short for […]