Big changes to data protection laws in the EU and Brazil
A key ruling in the EU and Brazil's version of the GDPR means privacy safeguards just got strengthened for hundreds of millions of people.
New semester, new surveillance: How schools plan to monitor students
Amid a pandemic, schools that decide to reopen might implement various invasive methods of monitoring students.
U.S. Senate to vote on EARN IT bill, endangering encryption
The widely criticized EARN IT bill, which might eradicate end-to-end encryption, is now up for voting by the U.S. Senate.
Staying private and anonymous online is in your best financial interests
Retailers will offer different prices on goods and services depending on visitor browsing habits and physical location.
In a possible first, facial recognition has led to a wrongful arrest
What the arrest of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams in Michigan shows about the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.
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...
