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Our thoughts on the EU’s "right to be forgotten" ruling
This post was originally published on May 16, 2014. On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice decided that Europeans have what they call the "right to be forgotten," meaning that companies like Googl...
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Why we should all care about metadata surveillance
This post was originally published on April 25, 2014. Hopefully, Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance of phone call metadata are still fresh in your minds. “But it’s just metadat...
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Our reaction to Prism and NSA spying
This past week we've seen a flurry of media coverage related to privacy in electronic communications. It started with reports that Verizon, a US telecom provider, furnishes the National Security Agenc...
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ExpressVPN protects you from password sniffing programs
As some of you may recall, back around late-2010, a new Firefox extension was released that allowed an individual to hijack numerous accounts of users connected to public WiFi access points -- everyth...
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Top 3 reasons to get a VPN
Protect your privacy. Especially when working at public Wi-Fi spots, it is easy for others near you to spy on your network traffic. By using freely available software called a packet sniffer, ...
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