Tag Archives: privacy

For years, one of the barriers that we’ve set up against hackers took the form of secret questions. “What’s your mother’s maiden name?” or “Who was your best friend in high school?” are questions that we often put answers to in order to lock down access to our accounts, but according to Google’s study, they aren’t doing very much to ...

A new report from Belgian universities suggests that Facebook is in violation of EU laws because of its intensive tracking on user activity. The reports come from the University of Leuven and the Vrije University in Brussels, where researchers have published an analysis of Facebook terms and policies, which have been updated over the past few weeks. According to their ...

Secure communication has become a bit of a tabu now, seeing as the NSA, FBI and other government agencies frown upon end to end encryption provided by certain software. Those concerned with their privacy and want to have a secure communications experience when using their smartphones don’t have a lot of options out there, but thankfully, there are enough free ...

Facebook is actually sharing your conversations with advertisers, which sounds like a serious infringement on privacy, at the very least. Facebook’s new topic data offering to advertisers means that the social media network is opening up their data so that advertisers and marketing specialists can access the database and search for keywords with which they can target people with their ...

Spying doesn’t need a permission, and that’s why Harvard has been in the headlines lately. Harvard decided that it would be a good idea to use cameras to track student attendance, and whilst students would have surely accepted the idea, the university decided it would be in their best interests to be left in the dark. Thus, we can say ...

Samaratians Radar is – or used to be – an app within Twitter that could sweep through tweets and filter for content that would suggest a depressive or otherwise dangerous mental state. The purpose of Radar is to try and raise awareness, as well as prevent tragedies from happening, screening tweets for suicidal thoughts or hints. Even though Radar hasn’t ...

iCloud is Apple’s own cloud storage service which has recently been in the news because of a massive leak of celebrity nudes and photos. While Apple denied that iCloud was at fault for the leak of the image, it seems that the company is taking responsibility for the breach. Apple issued a security warning to iCloud users, informing them that ...

Silent Circle, the makers of the privacy-minded and expensive Blackphone, has revealed that the company is working on a new addition to their privacy-centered portfolio, in the form of a tablet. Silent Circle in cooperation with Geeksphone have made the Blackphone the favorite device of those who are fans of encryption and privacy. The BlackPhone, while expensive, does offer a ...

We all know that Google collects a lot of our information in order to offer a cross-platform experience where you can integrate all your user accounts and be rid of the hassle of always logging in and searching for things on Chrome. It seems that Germany isn’t very happy about the Google data profiling policy and says that the company ...

Security and privacy has been one of the main concerns of many smartphone, tablet, smartwatch and other mobile or wearable device users. Apple has responded to these concerns by offering encryption on all of its devices, and Google has done the same, announcing the feature on the upcoming Android 5.0 L version too. It seems that the FBI isn’t as ...