After another week of dismally tragic news and moral failures by the powerful, it’s good to know that you can at least depend on the small things, like “privacy-focused” search engine and browser DuckDuckGo resisting the temptation to sell [...]
Tag: Security
What Do Those Pesky ‘Cookie Preferences’ Pop-Ups Really Mean?
As part of GDPR, companies based outside Europe can be hit with enormous fines if they track and analyze EU visitors to their website. In other words, say your company resides in New York, but that company has European visitors and customers, or collects their data. If that’s the [...]
‘How Are They Weapons? That’s Only a Flashlight!’
By late August, as the government continued to stonewall the protesters’ growing demands, many young people became more desperate. They routinely relied on Molotovs, bonfires, bricks, lighter fluid, and anything metal to shatter windows. [...]
The Mystery of China’s Sudden Warnings About US Hackers
Ben Read, director of cyberespionage analysis at the US cybersecurity firm Mandiant, says China’s state media push of alleged US hacking seems to be consistent, but it mostly contains older information. “Everything that I’ve seen they’ve written about, they tie back [...]
Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal
More than 40 Democratic members of Congress called on Google to stop collecting and retaining customer location data that prosecutors could use to identify women who obtain abortions.
“We are concerned that, in a world in which abortion could be made illegal, Google’s current practice [...]
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
Since its founding in 2014, ProtonMail has become synonymous with user-friendly encrypted email. Now the company is trying to be synonymous with a whole lot more. On Wednesday morning, [...]
‘Tough to Forge’ Digital Driver’s Licenses Are—Yep—Easy to Forge
Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
Ford says that the high level of mobile connectivity among Ukrainians and a notable absence of combat footage from smartphones and headcams, especially in the early phases of the war, suggest an effective information operation may be underway. “No doubt the Ukrainians fear such images [...]
The Surveillance State Is Primed for Criminalized Abortion
How GDPR Is Failing
The French data regulator has, in some ways, sidestepped the international GDPR process by directly pursuing companies’ use of cookies. Despite common beliefs, annoying cookie pop-ups [...]