How to remove yourself from search engine results
How to secure your digital identity. With the recent deployment of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (otherwise known as the GDPR), it has never been easier for EU…
Surveillance
Should Facial Recognition Technologies Be Regulated by the Government? Microsoft Says ‘Yes’
Facial recognition technology represents one of the most serious threats to privacy. That's for two principal reasons. Perhaps the most important is that it is almost impossible to change our…
OpSec – Staying Private Under Surveillance
One of the biggest mistakes that people make while trying to operate privately on the internet is giving up their information over side-channels. That is, they break operational security through…
Dark Patterns: How Tech Companies Use Interface Design to Undermine Online Privacy
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force back in May. One reason many people know about the GDPR is because they were bombarded with emails asking them…
Oppression for Pennies – The Cost of Surveillance is Falling
If there’s one thing the Internet has taught us over the last 40 years, it is that information is power. The Internet has made and ruined careers, toppled corrupt regimes,…
Why did privacy expert Max Schrems immediately file GDPR complaints against Google and Facebook – and will he win?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force a few weeks ago. As Rick Falkvinge noted in his post on the topic, its impact is potentially huge. The GDPR…
In China’s footsteps: Amazon and US schools normalize automatic facial recognition and constant surveillance
Amazon has developed a powerful cloud-based facial recognition system called "Rekognition", which has major implications for privacy. It is already being used by multiple US police forces to carry out…
If You Have a Comcast Xfinity Router, You Need to Install a VPN (Now)
If you lease an Xfinity router from internet service provider (ISP) Comcast, you need to install a VPN as soon as possible. According to security researchers Karan Saini and Ryan…
Thousands of Android Apps Are Violating Child Privacy Laws
Thousands of Android apps are violating a law designed to protect the privacy of children using internet-connected devices, research from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) shows. Writing in a…
Mossad starts funding sociopathic startups aiming to deprive people of liberty
Mossad has started funding the worst of the worst of IT startups. Normally, a headline such as this would only be seen on very questionable websites, but the source for…