The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating up
This post was originally published on July 2, 2020. Following the introduction of the EARN IT bill in the U.S. Senate in March—a bipartisan legislation...
Not so (artificially) intelligent: 8 times machine learning got it wrong
Billions of dollars have been poured into artificial intelligence (AI) research, with proponents of the technology arguing that computers can help solve some of...
What happens to your privacy if you go completely cashless?
Swiping a card or using your phone to pay for things is undoubtedly convenient but comes with obvious privacy risks. The move towards a...
New Android malware targets Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp
This article was originally published on June 1, 2020. A new Android zero-day exploit, targeting primarily Thai users, has been uncovered by security researchers at...
Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual privacy
History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow the first seeds of the...
Survey: Americans distrust contact-tracing apps but are willing to use them for the greater...
A new survey by ExpressVPN found that 75% of people believe that contact-tracing apps violate a person’s privacy.
How do advertisers always know where you are?
To build a profile of you, advertisers can gather a multitude of information. They can follow you around the web using a tracking code,...
Contactless supermarkets are here. But at what cost?
Contactless stores and delivery options have shot into the mainstream thanks to the spread of Covid-19. What does it mean for privacy?
What is Off-Facebook activity, and what does it reveal about your online activity?
Facebook harvests a lot of your data, even when you’re not actually using it. Now, finally, Facebook is letting you see and delete that...
EARN IT Act: U.S. might permanently ban end-to-end encryption
The EARN IT bill could make tech companies liable for its users' behavior and has far-reaching consequences for privacy and encryption.
