Security is the practice of ensuring your devices are not working against your own intent
In short, supercookies can be used in place of ordinary cookies to store user identifiers, but they are much more difficult to delete and block. This makes it nearly impossible…
Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen. Tens…
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many,…
iOS does not utilize built-in encryption measures as much as it could do, allowing for potentially unnecessary security vulnerabilities, according to cryptographers at Johns Hopkins University (via Wired). Using publicly…
A new combination of two older types of Android malware, which provides hackers with access to almost everything a user does on an Android smartphone, is up for sale on…
EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments,…
As data scientists how much should we care data privacy? Well more data means better models and less data means less accurate models. So in a sense the value we…
Google Analytics is a part of the Google Marketing Platform, which allows website administrators to track and analyze website traffic. Google shares data from its Google Analytics silos with its…
YouTube announced on December 16, 2020, that it will appoint a local representative in Turkey to comply with the country’s recently amended internet law, making it much more susceptible to…
As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services that invade my privacy, collect my data, and track my actions. Then the pandemic came, and I threw…
