California's State Senate will vote today on A.B. 375 - the California Broadband Internet Privacy Act. The bill forces ISPs to get a customer's express opt-in permission before collecting sensitive…
The 'creator' of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been identified. That, at least, is the claim in a recent article by Alexander Muse on Medium. But don't get too excited. The…
Equifax leaks 143 million social security numbers, and the tech world stands jawdropped, while the mainstream press treats it as a sideline note. This treatment of security on the sidelines…
A fascinating and horrifying new AI algorithm is able to predict your sexual orientation with 91% accuracy from five photographs of your face. According to the researchers, the human brain…
Malaysia temporarily blocked Valve's popular gaming engine, Steam, across the entire country on September 8th, 2017 over a 2D brawler called Fight of the Gods. The Malaysian government had given…
Togo's netizens are currently in the midst of an internet shutdown. Internet and mobile SMS service in the small African country of Togo has been shut down as of September…
A recent security study shows VPN use on the rise in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Wombat Security surveyed roughly 1,000 adults in the United States and…
As the Internet of Things (IoT) begins to enter the mainstream, concerns about the impact such "smart" devices will have on users' privacy are growing. Many of the problems are…
What if there were no prices on anything in your local supermarket, because everything in the entire selection was priced individually just for you, and the food prices would vary…
As readers of this blog know, VPNs are a great way to protect your privacy and security. But they address only some of the online threats we all face every…