June 14, 2022

Murder suspect admits she tracked cheating partner with hidden AirTag

O! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.

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November 17, 2021

Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection feature – watch out if you have a Watch!

Apple's "Protect Mail Activity" is a handy privacy enhancement for your messaging habits. As long as you know its limitations...

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April 22, 2021

S3 Ep29: Anti-tracking, rowhammer problems and IoT vulns [Podcast]

Latest episode - listen now!

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April 20, 2021

Firefox 88 patches bugs and kills off a sneaky JavaScript tracking trick

What's in a window name? Turns out that it could be a sneaky tracking code, so Firefox has put a stop to that.

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June 24, 2020

iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, Safari to give us ‘No, thanks!’ option for ad tracking

At WWDC, Apple promised to double down on data protection in its upcoming iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and Safari releases.

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May 29, 2020

Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings

Maps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it's consumer fraud.

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March 11, 2020

Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation

Brave is testing a new defence against fingerprinting: confusing algorithms by randomising some of the data they collect.

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March 10, 2020

Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime

The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.

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February 04, 2020

Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.

Google's Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man's voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.

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