digital privacy
How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy
How to keep your digital devices and accounts safe when exercising your right to peaceably assemble.
We Saw NSO's Covid-19 Software in Action, and Privacy Experts Are Worried
A number of surveillance tech companies are pivoting to tracking coronavirus-infected citizens. Experts are worried that they are just trying exploit a crisis to expand their questionable businesses.
Zoom Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Sharing Data with Facebook
The lawsuit comes after Motherboard analyzed the Zoom iOS app and found it sent analytic data to Facebook once opened.
Indian Cops Have Been Asked to Spy on Students’ WhatsApp Groups
At a conference in December 2019 addressed by PM Modi, cops were also asked to monitor tweets and speeches.
India Is Using a 134-Year-Old Law Designed for Telegraphs to Monitor People's Encrypted Texts
Critics say that the government’s desire to monitor and control all online activity is moving India toward a complete surveillance state.
Your Menstrual App Is Probably Selling Data About Your Body
Using a menstruapp can mean telling the app regularly if you went out, drank, smoked, had an orgasm, what your poop looked like, if your skin is clear, how you feel, and if your vaginal discharge has a strong odor or looks like cottage cheese.
Not Even AI Can Make Total Sense of a Privacy Policy
Using artificial intelligence, researchers have created a tool that crawls privacy policies on popular websites like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. But the software’s findings are not as detailed as those done by humans.
Trump's NAFTA Renegotiations Could Put Canadians' Personal Data At Risk
Canada and the US will soon start working towards a new deal.
This Map Will Show If Your Web Traffic Passes Through an NSA Listening Post
IXmaps wants to “make visible the secret, dangerous, often illegal forms of surveillance that are increasingly becoming part of everyday life.”
Republicans Are About to Nuke the FCC’s Broadband Privacy Rules
It’s part of a broad GOP effort to roll back regulations across the US economy.
'Quick, Draw' is a Computer Judging Your Bad Pig Pictures
Playing 'Quick, Draw' allows you to have some very weird interactions with a neural network. And come to terms with your farm animal drawing skills.