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Android Phones Pushed Location Info Even with GPS Turned Off, an Invitation to Abuse

December 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Privacy is a word that sounds wonderful, but if you’re an Android user, it seems that might be the furthest thing from the truth. New reports indicate that Google has [...]

Apple Dismisses Ad Industry’s Effort to Abuse Cookies, Keeps Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention Feature

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

In a rather funny twist, the Safari web browser is at the center of a fight between Apple and advertisers on the topic of privacy. The reason for the fight is that Safari has [...]

Airport Facial Recognition May Cut Your Travel Time, Boost Security

August 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

Another country’s airports are about to roll out face recognition technology, and that may be a very good thing. Sure, it sounds invasive on some level – [...]

Roombas Mapping Out Your House May Be Doing You a Favor

August 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

If you have a Roomba, we have news for you – your sweeper robot might soon sell off your house map to various tech companies. The information comes straight from Colin [...]

Amazon Echo’s “Always On” Feature Might Call the Cops for You for the Price of Your Privacy

August 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s about high time we realize that those smart devices that make our lives so much easier are actually, more-or-less, spying on us. News came recently that Amazon’s [...]

Facial recognition will replace passports in Australia

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Australia has started implementing biometric facial, iris and fingerprint recognition in airports, allowing passengers to go through without showing a passport or even [...]

Do you want anonymous or recorded talks and searches?

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

I’m asking you because you can have both of them untracked and unrecorded! If you thought, that it’s harder to escape from Google’s and Bing’s and Yahoo’s prying [...]

China to crack down on censor-busting services

January 23, 2017 // 1 Comment

The nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced plans to “clean up” unauthorised internet connections. The 14-month campaign will [...]

Facebook Banned This Canadian Surveillance Company From Accessing Its Data

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

The company, headquartered in London, Ontario, sells software that allows clients to monitor social media posts for keywords. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union [...]

Facebook is censoring posts in Thailand that the government has deemed unsuitable

January 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

For millions of people, Facebook is the internet — but many of those who rely on the social network for news and views may not be aware that Facebook isn’t immune to [...]