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Take a few quick steps to ramp up your phone’s privacy protections.
Evaluates browsers on how often and how much info is sent to centralized backend. Brave is best, followed by Firefox. Implies some settings to disable to preserve privacy.
The following is a list of privacy tools I’ve used and enjoy using to keep me as private as possible online.
It's hard to imagine going through a day right now without thinking about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. You likely already know the basic fac
‘Safety guidance texts’ sent by the authorities contain an avalanche of personal information and are fuelling social stigma
The little problem with UBC’s big, expensive new tool Last year, UBC introduced a new learning management system. Canvas by Instructure was rolled out to replace the aging and underperforming Blackboard Connect.
Just under a month ago Facebook switched on global availability of a tool which affords users a glimpse into the murky world of tracking that its business relies upon to profile users of the wider web for ad targeting purposes. Facebook is not going boldly into transparent daylight — but rather offering what privacy rights […]
Forward-thinking institutions are building a robust infrastructure to support ethical data usage, privacy, and innovation.
Really good example of a security/privacy policy for vendors.
Mental health data -- Facebook! What could go wrong?
New infrastructure will enhance privacy in today’s Internet of Things - CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Law says ISPs need opt-in consent before using or sharing Web-browsing history.
Safari’s main weapon against third-party tracking is called Intelligent Tracking Prevention.
The latest version of Google Chrome improves its anti-cookie tools.
The changes discussed in this article are based on a second analysis performed in late November, 3 months after the original study Your Mental Health is for Sale and following the exact same methodology.
As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted.
Survey of privacy/security knowledge among Brooklyn PL staff. Unsurprisingly, it's pretty dismal.