We've been discussing the privacy advantages of contextual advertising – a system that places ads based on a webpage’s content and not who's viewing it (also known as behavioral advertising)…
Software updates might annoy us when they pop up randomly and want us to restart our devices in the middle of whatever we’re doing, but they serve an important purpose.…
Relying on a username and password used to be enough to keep your accounts secure — but not anymore. A combination of weak passwords, freely accessible email addresses, browser-saved logins,…
Is Google spying on me? If you use Google Assistant or Gemini, your device may listen for a wake word, such as “Hey Google," to respond to voice commands. This…
Microsoft's keylogger lets the company record and process your keystrokes, so it can track anything you type on your keyboard. According to Microsoft, only specific employees have access to the…
The European Union's important new law, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), is likely to have an impact well beyond the EU’s borders. Unfortunately, that impact will be negative in…
It’s happened again. You log into your VPN, pick your location, open your web browser, and — CAPTCHA. But why? Isn’t downloading a VPN designed to stop these types of…
PIA blog first wrote about the normalization of workplace surveillance six years ago. A new report from Cracked Labs called Monitoring, Streamlining and Reorganizing Work with Digital Technology shows how…
Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office is investigating a GDPR complaint against ChatGPT and the company behind it, OpenAI. According to the Polish data protection agency: the complainant turned to the…
TikTok has officially come of age: it has joined an exclusive club of companies that have been hit with major fines for infringing on the EU’s main privacy law, the…