• Oct 21, 2018 |
• Chris Miller |
• Announcements, Governments, News,

#WeHearYouKhashoggi

The image you see above, is part of a full page ad we ran in The New York Times Sunday Edition today, October 21, 2018.   Late last night, we were…

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• Oct 20, 2018 |
• Glyn Moody |
• News, Privacy,

Coming soon: everyone’s genetic anonymity undermined by distant relatives – and there’s nothing you can do about it

Earlier this year, Privacy News Online wrote about how long-standing linked but unsolved murder cases were resolved by checking genetic material found at some of the crime scenes against online…

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• Oct 17, 2018 |
• Derek Zimmer |
• Open Source, Privacy, Security,

The Security Usability Challenge

Everyone wants to be more secure. They want their browsing, their money, their utilities, and their lives to be as safe as possible. When you ask users of any service…

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• Oct 13, 2018 |
• Glyn Moody |
• News, Privacy, Security,

Amazon hopes to blanket your home and car with listening, eavesdropping Alexa devices

Last year, Privacy News Online noted that there was a new frontier for digital privacy: home devices that understand spoken commands. Recent research from Canalys confirms that the market continues…

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• Oct 10, 2018 |
• Derek Zimmer |
• Guides, Privacy, Security,

Firefox Lightbeam – Visually Seeing the Benefits of Privacy in Real Time

Back in our Firefox Hardening guide, we talked about installing the extension Firefox Lightbeam. What is Lightbeam? Lightbeam is an app that gives you a visual graph of what your…

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• Oct 7, 2018 |
• Danica Sergison |
• Copyright, Governments, News, Privacy,

The USMCA, international trade and your digital rights

After months of negotiations and significant political tension, the United States, Canada and Mexico announced a new trade agreement earlier this week. The "new NAFTA" will be known as the…

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• Oct 6, 2018 |
• Glyn Moody |
• News, Open Source, Privacy, Programming, Security,

Tim Berners-Lee unveils next step for Solid, a decentralized Web platform with privacy built-in as standard

It's no secret that the current design of the World Wide Web has huge problems. This was shown most dramatically by the recent security breach at Facebook that saw 50…

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• Oct 4, 2018 |
• Derek Zimmer |
• Networking, Open Source, Privacy, Security,

uMatrix – A Powerful Firefox Extension to Enhance Security and Privacy

Today we are going to talk about uMatrix, a more powerful cousin of the uBlock Origin ad-blocker. uMatrix adds Cookie, CSS, Media/Image, Script, XML Http Requests (XHR), Frame, and other…

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• Sep 29, 2018 |
• Glyn Moody |
• Governments, News, Privacy,

Call for wide-ranging GDPR investigation into online ads, which could kill today’s real-time bidding system

Privacy News Online recently wrote about how the widely-used real-time bidding (RTB) system for online ads causes personal data to be spread widely among potential advertisers. We noted that one…

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• Sep 26, 2018 |
• Derek Zimmer |
• News, Security,

Firefox Hardening Guide 2018

Purpose: This guide shows a user in an easy-to-follow way how to improve the privacy and security settings of Firefox, which, when combined with a privacy VPN, gives a user…

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