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Google and Apple are co-creating a contact-tracing tool. Can you trust it?

In what can only be described as the most unlikely of partnerships, Apple and Google have teamed up to develop a contact-tracing tool that...
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Countries are using greater surveillance measures to track Covid-19. What are they tracking?

Heightened global concerns over the novel coronavirus have compelled countries to implement measures such as flight suspensions, mandatory quarantine and work from home mandates,...
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How to change app permissions on your devices

When downloading an app to your device, sometimes a message pops up to request permissions that the app would like to have in order...
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Students and activists in the U.S. lead the fight against facial recognition

Facial recognition tech can identify us in crowds, but a new wave of privacy advocates want to outlaw the algorithms across the U.S.
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Google is trying to make its new terms of service more readable

NOTE: This post was originally published on March 6, 2020 If you’ve googled something at some point in the last couple of weeks, you’ve likely...
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Chrome extensions found leaking millions of records

Malicious browser extensions discreetly uploaded personal user data to unknown servers, in a complex web that could be at least 3 years old.
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Facial recognition works even when you’re covering your face

Until recently, facial recognition software needed to scan your entire face in order to attempt to identify you. That may no longer be the...
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A new survey shows Americans increasingly care about privacy

Given how many privacy breaches hit the news, it’s of little surprise that 96% of Americans recently surveyed by ExpressVPN said that online data...
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Google was publicly indexing your private WhatsApp groups, and no one knows for how...

The loophole for the messaging app was only spotlighted recently, but it’s not clear how long they were publicly searchable.
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2 mins

Are you an Android user? Your Bluetooth might be compromised

CVE-2020-0022 is an Android bug which targets the Bluetooth code of Android devices running Oreo (8.0 and 8.1) and Pie (9.0).

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