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Google was publicly indexing your private WhatsApp groups, and no one knows for how long
This post was originally published on February 25, 2020. Up until a few days ago, if anyone had created a link to invite people to a WhatsApp group via the “Invite to Group Link,” someone could fi...
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Are you an Android user? Your Bluetooth might be compromised
This post was originally published on February 18, 2020. Researchers at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt recently discovered CVE-2020-0022, an Android bug which ta...
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Google Maps is turning 15. How has it dominated the way we navigate?
Do you remember the last time you looked at a printed map? If you drive, then maybe you have an outdated Road Atlas collecting dust in the back of your car, or maybe you have a collection of tourist...
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The privacy nightmare in our wallets
Google’s been keeping track of your online purchases, hotel bookings, and newsletter subscriptions for years, but a new privacy concern takes this several steps further. An experiment by The Washing...
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In a win for privacy advocates, DuckDuckGo can now be your default search engine in the EU
New Android users in the EU are set to benefit from an antitrust ruling that the European Union issued last year. Starting March, users will be given the option to choose between four search engines w...
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The founder of Yale’s Privacy Lab is worried by the coming age of surveillance and facial recognition
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on January 14, 2020. Sean O’Brien later joined us as Principal Researcher to establish our new Digital Security Lab, focusing on high-quality, ori...
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Google’s adds Fitbit to its IoT-controlled dystopia
This post was originally published on January 9, 2020 Ever since Google took control of Fitbit last year in a 2.1 billion USD deal, there have been mounting concerns over what the agreement represents...
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3.2 million ‘right to be forgotten’ requests since 2014
This post was originally published on January 2, 2020. It’s been over five years since the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” came into effect. Surely the entity most heavily impacted by...
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Governments are demanding user data from Facebook in record numbers
According to Facebook’s latest transparency report, government requests for user data reached their highest level ever in the first six months of 2019, numbering 128,617. The U.S. government asked f...
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Google’s smart city project: A privacy hot button
This post was originally published on December 12, 2019. Check out the previous post in this series: What are smart cities? In 2017, when Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs announced Quayside, a project in pa...
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