All of Your Smart Devices Are Spying on You
At this point, it’s obvious that our smartphones and computers are data-leakers. Plenty of us now cover our laptops’ webcams (although we always forget about the mics), while our smartphones track…
Security is the practice of ensuring your devices are not working against your own intent
This site exposes the creepy things in-app browsers from TikTok and Instagram might track
Did you know you’re potentially being tracked when you load an in-app browser on iOS? A new tool reveals exactly how, showing how applications like TikTok and Instagram can potentially…
iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
Meta's Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS devices have been injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites from their custom in-app browser, gaining access to data that would be unavailable were…
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
A 17-year-old girl and her mother have been charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors after an apparent medication abortion at home in Nebraska. The state’s case relies on…
Amazon’s One-Stop Shop for Identity Thieves
Imagine if a budding identity thief had a free, user-friendly, publicly searchable database that contained the name, location, date of birth, and mother’s maiden name of millions of people. Enter…
Ready or not, the Glassholes are coming back
Augmented Reality can be super fun and engaging and I'm sure it will have some compelling use cases. The best use case I can think of is the possibility of…
FTC Questions VPN Providers Privacy Claims
Two members of Congress have called on the Federal Trade Commission to tackle a digital threat that privacy watchdogs have been concerned about for years: Virtual private network companies continue…
Host Pi-Hole on Amazon Web Services to Block Ads for Free
Did you know you can host Pi-Hole on Amazon Web Services for Free? You've likely heard of Pi-Hole (the open source DNS Server that blocks ads) and you've almost certainly…
How to find and remove spyware from your phone
Good article and here are the key steps: 1) Regularly Reboot your phone by Turning it on and off again. 2) Don't click links in strange emails, texts, or video…
US government is tracking our phones more than we thought – TechCrunch
It’s no secret that U.S. government agencies have been obtaining and using location data collected by Americans’ smartphones. In early 2020, a Wall Street Journal report revealed that both Immigration and Customs…