When you take a photo, your smartphone or digital camera stores "metadata" within the image file. This automatically and parasitically burrows itself into every photo you take. It is data…
Imagine a child born this year who will be surrounded by technology at every phase of her childhood. When she is three years old, Sophie’s parents buy her a smart…
If you care about privacy—and you should—Cook’s frank speech is worth a watch. He elaborated on his thoughts when I interviewed him moments afterward. Our talk was not the typical…
Apple privacy changes have been delayed in the past allow more time for other companies to adjust. Apple privacy ads seem to have been delayed as well, perhaps due to…
Three of the most important concepts to understand online are: privacy, anonymity, and security. But while most treat them as synonyms for having a safe digital presence, they don't mean…
When you visit a website, your browser makes a "request" for that site. In the background, advertising code and invisible trackers on that site might also cause your browser to…
A group of researchers has uncovered what looks to be the first browser-based side-channel attack that's built entirely from CSS and HTML. The JavaScript-free attack has been found to work…
Tillie Kottmann, a 21-year-old hacker, has been raided by Swiss authorities and their devices seized, Bloomberg reports — days after helping to reveal how Silicon Valley security startup Verkada’s own…
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…
