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…
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…
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…
This is not the first Instagram Spying story. There have been plenty of Instagram spying story in recent years about whether apps can listen to us or watch us. But…
A new tool has been proposed for cloaking our true identities when photos are posted online to prevent profiling through facial recognition systems. Deep learning tools and facial recognition software…
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube that doesn't use the official YouTube API. Instead, it parses the YouTube site's source code to get the necessary information, similarly as projects…
His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome with high cheekbones and dirty blond, collar-length hair. Next to his name is one of social media’s most prized possessions,…
Let's commend the Apple Marketing Team for doing such a great job of making privacy with the Apple iPhone relatable and relevant. If only the privacy advocacy community had a…
The most important step of any data-driven project is obtaining quality data. Without these preprocessing steps, the results of a project can easily be biased or completely misunderstood. Here, we…
