Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want
Latest Tor Browser iteration makes the dark web a bit more memorable
03 Jun 2020
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As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks
Just what will happen to all that tasty location and contact data?
02 Jun 2020
Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades
It's too long a retention period, say digital rights campaigners
01 Jun 2020
Paying Arizona: Google sued by state for location data revenues after tracking state's citizens via mobiles
Chocolate Factory insists its practices have been mischaracterized
28 May 2020
Switzerland 'first' country to roll out contact-tracing app using Apple-Google APIs to track coronavirus spread
Launch comes ahead of UK rolling out its controversial version
28 May 2020
Mulled Chrome API shines light on long-neglected privacy gap: Sites can snoop on your find-in-page searches
UpdatedNaughty JS can watch you hit control+F, start typing, see what's on your mind
27 May 2020
eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?
UpdatedFraud is a big issue for etailer, but there are privacy and consent concerns too
26 May 2020
Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue
Grandchild Digital Picture Removal
22 May 2020
Remember when Securus was sued for recording 14,000 calls between prison inmates and lawyers? It just settled
It was a software bug, insists telco, as attorneys walk with most of the money
21 May 2020
Hey Siri, are you still recording people's conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago?
I’m sorry, I will continue ignoring that question
20 May 2020
Google rolls out pro-privacy DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83... with a handy kill switch for corporate IT
Plus: Web giant hears developers' extension concerns, ignores them
20 May 2020
Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl
Lawsuits filed after alarm biz admits worker snooped on victims
19 May 2020
AT&T tracked its own sales bods using GPS, secretly charged them $135 a month to do so, lawsuit claims
See, it's not just users getting shafted
19 May 2020
FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some
High-frequency audio could be used to stealthily track netizens
07 May 2020
California’s privacy warriors are back – and this time they want to take their fight all the way to the ballot box
Politicos watered down earlier efforts, so data defenders will fight to the end
06 May 2020
Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' national identity numbers
Even parks and train stations encouraged to use QR codes. Which may show the limits of Bluetooth contact-tracing!
04 May 2020
Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers
From URL to UR-Hell
30 Apr 2020
UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API, insists on British control of data, promises to protect privacy
AnalysisWhy do it at all? Easier to audit and adapt, apparently
28 Apr 2020
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