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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...
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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...
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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.
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3 mins

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,...
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5 mins

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?
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2 mins

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...
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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.
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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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2 mins

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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