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Cybersecurity

Privacy Climate Change – Slow, Steady, and Destructive Changes to the Web

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Derek Zimmer

The Internet is trending toward a highly isolated place that is under constant surveillance. Firstly, we should talk about why these are problems, and then potential solutions. Taken alone, each…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy, it just wants to farm your personal data – these confidential documents prove it

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Privacy News Online has published a number of stories about privacy problems with Facebook. But what the company's top management really thinks about the personal information it holds – as…

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

How to Use a VPN to Improve Security on Your MacOS Device

Updated on Jan 27, 2024 by Summer Hirst

Working on a Mac is super easy. There are no drivers and no fussy installation processes. There are several reasons why people buy Apple devices. They may cost more initially,…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides, VPN

Privacy Theater – How Privacy Companies Market and What Actually Protects You

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Derek Zimmer

Bruce Schneier famously popularized the concept of "security theater" in his 2003 book Beyond Fear. The concept of security theater explains how various nations will engage in "feel good" activities…

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5 Sure Signs You Have Been Hacked

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Ashley Perna

Most hackers don’t exactly leave a calling card. For obvious reasons, it is in their best interest if you have no idea that anything is wrong with your system. Malware…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides

Electric vehicles are sending real-time location and diagnostic data to Chinese government monitoring centers

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 by Glyn Moody

A couple of months ago, this blog noted how modern vehicles are constantly producing large quantities of data, which has important implications for privacy. An Associated Press article published in…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Derek Zimmer

Governments in the Five eyes surveillance alliance have been relentlessly lobbying for the power to force companies to back door their encrypted data. Every year, a new proposal comes through…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Quora Data Breach Affects 100 Million Users

Updated on Dec 4, 2018 by Chris Miller

On December 3rd, 2018, the infamous Question and Answer site, Quora announced that the private messages and account information from around 100 million users was exposed by a "malicious third…

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Sky Brasil exposed private information, including IP addresses, of 32 million Brazilians

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Sky Brasil, one of Brazil’s largest internet service providers (ISP) has exposed private information on all 32 million of its users. This leak was discovered by Brazilian independent researcher Fabio…

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534 Ways that Windows 10 Tracks You – From German Cyber Intelligence

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 by Derek Zimmer

The German Federal Cyberintelligence Agency BSI has released a report (PDF warning) (sections 1.2 and later are in English) that details the myriad ways that Windows 10 tracks users, and…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance
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