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…
Apple is delaying the rollout of a proposed privacy tweak in iOS 14 that allows users to opt out of ad tracking until early next year. In a statement shared…
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is one of the most popular chat protocols on the internet. The technology can be connected to the Tor network to create an anonymous and…
A browser fingerprinting script is a piece of JavaScript code that runs inside a web page and works by testing for the presence of certain browser features. Today, browser fingerprinting…
An abundance of reporting has confirmed that you’re not paranoid, Minority Report was nonfiction, and face paint isn’t just an art project. We hear about how law enforcement can match…
When the Fourth Amendment limits your surveillance plans, just go private. That seems to be the standard operating procedure for law enforcement agencies. When cops aren't willing to canvas neighborhoods…
It’s a tough time to be a TikToker. The video-sharing platform owned by the Chinese technology giant ByteDance has been censured in India, accused of “spying” by the president of…
We're not partisan here at Techdirt. We have our personal preferences, certainly, but technology policy tends to transcend normal political divisions. We have been just as likely to see good…
The Fundamentals of GDPR and Data Protection One aim of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect on May 25, 2018, was to harmonize data protection laws…
Financial records - including cryptocurrency - contain a trove of sensitive information about people’s personal lives, beliefs, and affiliations. That is why law enforcement should be required to get a…
