Students and activists in the U.S. lead the fight against facial recognition
Facial recognition tech can identify us in crowds, but a new wave of privacy advocates want to outlaw the algorithms across the U.S.
How to work from home: Keeping safe and sane while remote
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted a lot of companies, including Google and Apple, to recommend their employees work from home. Many events have been...
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...
Let’s Encrypt has issued a billion certificates, securely encrypting nearly 200 million sites
An effortless way to check whether the site you just logged on to maintains an encrypted connection is whether it starts with HTTP or...
Chrome extensions found leaking millions of records
Malicious browser extensions discreetly uploaded personal user data to unknown servers, in a complex web that could be at least 3 years old.
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...
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...
Google was publicly indexing your private WhatsApp groups, and no one knows for how...
The loophole for the messaging app was only spotlighted recently, but it’s not clear how long they were publicly searchable.
Are you an Android user? Your Bluetooth might be compromised
CVE-2020-0022 is an Android bug which targets the Bluetooth code of Android devices running Oreo (8.0 and 8.1) and Pie (9.0).
The uncrackable Android trojan: What is xHelper?
We’ve advised our readers to stay safe from malware and trojans by keeping their devices updated at all times, but a new strain caught...
