Yes, your e-reader tracks you, too. Here’s what to do about it.
Kindle tells Amazon about your page turns, dictionary lookups, highlights, notes, and more.
A researcher hacked satellite internet connections with $300 equipment
A British Ph.D. student has demonstrated how easy it is to read communications transmitted by satellites across the globe.
Denmark’s lesson in whistleblowing: Don’t arrest the whistleblowers
Seven years after Snowden, Denmark shows how a government should respond to whistleblowers.
Notorious eavesdropper NSA issues guide to hiding your location data
We're not making this up. The NSA has just issued a set of directives on how to stay safe and anonymous online.
Instagram stored messages and photos you wanted to delete
An independent security researcher found photos and messages more than a year after he deleted them.
Interview: Encryption expert Riana Pfefferkorn on the erosion of online free speech
The effect of the EARN IT Act, the problem with the U.S. concept of privacy, the emergence of regional internets, and more.
Face masks do help evade facial recognition tech—for now
A study by the U.S. government found that even some highly accurate algorithms failed to match photos of masked individuals to their pictures up to 50% of the time.
The CIA was secretly granted much more freedom to carry out cyberattacks
Since 2018, the agency has been permitted to approve its own operations, no longer needing White House approval.
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.
