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Google is trying to make its new terms of service more readable
NOTE: This post was originally published on March 6, 2020 If you’ve googled something at some point in the last couple of weeks, you’ve likely seen this nondescript blue bar on top of your screen ...
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Chrome extensions found leaking millions of records
This post was originally published on March 3, 2020. Security researchers at a division of Cisco said last week that they had uncovered 71 extensions in the Chrome Web Store that had covertly uploaded...
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Facial recognition works even when you’re covering your face
Until recently, facial recognition software needed to scan your entire face in order to attempt to identify you. That may no longer be the case. In China, the coronavirus (formally known as Covid-19) ...
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A new survey shows Americans increasingly care about privacy
Given how many privacy breaches hit the news, it’s of little surprise that 96% of Americans recently surveyed by ExpressVPN said that online data privacy was important to them. What’s more, many w...
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Google was publicly indexing your private WhatsApp groups, and no one knows for how long
This post was originally published on February 25, 2020. Up until a few days ago, if anyone had created a link to invite people to a WhatsApp group via the “Invite to Group Link,” someone could fi...
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Are you an Android user? Your Bluetooth might be compromised
This post was originally published on February 18, 2020. Researchers at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt recently discovered CVE-2020-0022, an Android bug which ta...
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Google Maps is turning 15. How has it dominated the way we navigate?
Do you remember the last time you looked at a printed map? If you drive, then maybe you have an outdated Road Atlas collecting dust in the back of your car, or maybe you have a collection of tourist...
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The privacy nightmare in our wallets
Google’s been keeping track of your online purchases, hotel bookings, and newsletter subscriptions for years, but a new privacy concern takes this several steps further. An experiment by The Washing...
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In a win for privacy advocates, DuckDuckGo can now be your default search engine in the EU
New Android users in the EU are set to benefit from an antitrust ruling that the European Union issued last year. Starting March, users will be given the option to choose between four search engines w...
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The founder of Yale’s Privacy Lab is worried by the coming age of surveillance and facial recognition
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on January 14, 2020. Sean O’Brien later joined us as Principal Researcher to establish our new Digital Security Lab, focusing on high-quality, ori...
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