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

December 23, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]