How to Delete Your Google Search History in a Few Easy Steps
Deleting your Google web browser history and Google Google search history is one way to limit how much data you […]
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I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, our columnist found out more than he wanted to know about the […]
Are your phone camera and microphone spying on you?
Here is what the former FBI director James Comey said when he was asked back in September 2016 if he […]
How to Turn Off Location Services on Your Smartphone
It’s no secret that marketers and others are using smartphone location tracking to monitor your travels. So what can you […]
Thinking About What You Need In A Secure Messenger
All the features that determine the security of a messaging app can be confusing and hard to keep track of. […]
Food-tracking chips are coming for your mouth
You may soon be able to digitally track what you put in your mouth. Scientists at Tufts University have developed […]
Establishing Responsible Privacy Practices in Digital Advertising
In 2009, the major US advertising trade associations joined together to establish a set of self-regulatory principles that balance consumer […]
What You Should Know About the Cookie’s Crumble: Associations Now
One of the most fundamental tracking tools of the internet era, the browser cookie, is starting to fall out of […]
China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from planes, trains
China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have […]
The increasing use of artificial intelligence is stoking privacy concerns in China
As artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies become more prevalent, a survey has found that three out of four […]
Mozilla Fellow’s research reveals widespread mobile tracking
A new study has been conducted based on data from 11,000 anonymous Android users. It found that mobile tracking is […]
Ghostery browser extension for web privacy goes open source
Unlocking the browser extension’s underpinnings could attract outside improvements and dispel ‘conspiracy theories’ about data about users it used to […]