March 26, 2020

Apple Safari now blocks all third-party cookies by default

Starting in 13.1, advertisers and analytics firms can't track us through browser cookies. Apple says this also kills login fingerprinting.

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February 25, 2020

Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it

Private chat invites aren't meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.

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February 18, 2020

Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.

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February 17, 2020

Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency

The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.

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January 21, 2020

What do online file sharers want with 70,000 Tinder images?

A researcher has discovered thousands of Tinder users' images publicly available for free online.

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January 15, 2020

Peekaboo Moments baby-recording app has a bad database booboo

No need to wait until you've gurgled out of your mother's womb to experience the joys of having your privacy breached.

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January 13, 2020

Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1

New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services.

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November 25, 2019

Ad-blocking companies block ‘unblockable’ tracker

Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable - a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.

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November 18, 2019

Wikipedia co-founder offers a Facebook/Twitter wannabe

Tired of being a tracked, ad-bedeviled product sold by social media companies? The cost to immediately join a network with no tracking/ads: $12.99/month.

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