Instant secure communication is a basic expectation in the 21st century. It's a way of keeping in touch with friends, family, work colleagues, and casual drinking buddies — without the…
I recently wrote about constructing a fake persona to hide your identity online. I’ll admit that for most people, it’s a lot of trouble to go through. In most cases,…
Peter Steiner's cartoon "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is The New Yorker's most reprinted drawing since they first published it in 1993. Forget the expertly illustrated political sketches,…
Since Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be rebranded as Meta to emphasize a new focus on virtual reality (VR), it has been hard to avoid hearing about the "metaverse".…
The privacy campaigner Max Schrems has been doggedly fighting to force Facebook to respect EU users' privacy for nearly a decade now. As this blog has reported, there have been…
If you've ever done something super sneaky and prayed that no one would ever find out, you're in a similar position to Edward Snowden when he leaked highly classified information…
Recently, this blog explored the allegations by 17 US states that Google had abused its monopoly power to stifle competition, and delayed the EU's ePrivacy legislation. Hard on its heels…
This blog's posts can often seem a depressing series of stories about privacy loss. But there are some major fightbacks happening in the background, many of which require the slow…
It has been clear for years that the widespread use of micro-targeted advertising and real-time bidding represents a huge threat to online privacy. Fortunately, an alternative approach is already to…
A couple of months ago, this blog wrote about Apple's Expanded Protections for Children, which turned out to mean client-side scanning (CSS). That is, code on your smartphone would be…