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Meta, WordPress and Others Explore Mastodon: What Does This Mean for Privacy and the fediverse?

Posted on Mar 16, 2023 by Glyn Moody

In November last year, I pointed out that the outages and uncertainty plaguing Twitter under the ownership of Elon Musk had led many people to look at alternatives. One in…

Categories: General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Social Media

What Does a VPN Hide? A Lot, But Not Everything – PIA VPN

Posted on Mar 14, 2023 by Gavoy Small

You’re all alone at home, so nobody’s around to see what you’re doing online. But can you be sure about that? When you signed up to an ISP for internet…

Categories: Online Privacy

How to Secure A Facebook Account in 2023

Posted on Mar 6, 2023 by Kristin Hassel

Facebook is a fast and easy way to connect with friends, family, and like-minded people. Anyone can find a group to join or a place to fit in. You can…

Categories: Online Privacy

Louisiana Mandates ID Verification for Pornography Online – 11 Other States Follow Suit

Posted on Mar 5, 2023 by Adina Matei

Preventing children from accessing adult material is well-intentioned, but politicians and legislators often go the wrong way about it. UK, Australian, and German authorities previously investigated implementing measures to prevent…

Categories: Online Privacy

Can You Get a Perfect March Madness Bracket This Season?

Posted on Mar 1, 2023 by Julia Olech

You’re more likely to date a supermodel, become a president of the United States, or even win the lottery than score a perfect March Madness bracket. According to the NCAA,…

Categories: Online Privacy

ChatGPT Is a Privacy Disaster Waiting To Happen

Posted on Feb 8, 2023 by Glyn Moody

To say that the AI-based chatbot ChatGPT is making headlines around the world would be something of an understatement. Every day, people are finding new ways to apply its amazing…

Categories: Announcements, General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Social Media

UK Government Is Engaged in Large-Scale Surveillance of Social Media

Posted on Feb 1, 2023 by Glyn Moody

New US And EU Laws Bring Risks To Privacy The UK civil rights group Big Brother Watch has published a major new document about the UK government's surveillance of social…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

EU to Use ePrivacy and GDPR to Tackle Illegal Cookie Walls

Posted on Jan 31, 2023 by Glyn Moody

One of the biggest criticisms of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is that it has led to a plague of annoying pop-ups and Web pages requesting permission to…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media

Socks5 VPN: What It Is & Why PIA Is the Best

Posted on Jan 23, 2023 by Kristin Hassel

Replace your IP address without sacrificing speeds via secure login with a SOCKS5 proxy. The latest SOCKS technology, SOCKS5, includes secure sign-in to your proxy server. Using SOCKS5 has become…

Categories: Online Privacy

Meta’s Lawsuit Against NSO Goes Forward – The Fight Against NSO Spyware Gains Strength

Posted on Jan 20, 2023 by Glyn Moody

The murky world of government spyware has never been the same after the Pegasus Project leaked in July 2021 a list of over 50,000 phone numbers believed to be people…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance
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