
Topic > privacy


Facebook will shell out $20M in ‘Sponsored Stories’ settlement

Hack this, NSA: Google now triple-encrypts all data in Google Cloud Storage

German government intros eight-point security program to circumvent NSA spying

Not only did NSA break the rules, the court can't trust NSA to tell the truth about it

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Mobile’s balancing act: Why sometimes collecting data is just as good

Kim Dotcom’s Mega to launch secure email service after Lavabit shutdown

Yikes: This new app saves Snapchats without letting the sender know

Here’s how to keep your Internet usage & data private

Why making ‘consent’ the center of privacy law is important

Pinterest enables Do Not Track, announces it in a totally unrelated blog post

Plug gives you your own personal PRISM-free Dropbox

Apple responds to developer site hacker, sort of

DuckDuckGo, PRISM, and the new business of privacy

MaskMe: Finally a way to use the web without surrendering all your personal info

Twitter releases personal account details of alleged anti-Semites to French government

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Cloud security is important, but what does it really mean?

Pirate Bay cofounder is building an NSA-proof messaging app via crowdfunding

Who’s spying on you, and how to make them stop (infographic)

EU regulators tell Google its current privacy policy has to go

‘I filmed the first fight and arrest through Google Glass’

‘Restore The 4th’ galvanizes over 100 nationwide protests against NSA, PRISM, and government spying

DuckDuckGo finally brings private search to iOS and Android

LinkedIn DNS hijacked, traffic rerouted for an hour, and users’ cookies read in plain text

Google’s clearest statement yet on NSA & PRISM: No server access, no back door, no drop box, no free-for-all

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COPPA: 10 rules every business should know before July 1

Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says

NSA chief: We do not ‘unilaterally’ obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers

Privacy is hot: Antitracking startup Disconnect nabs $3.5M from FirstMark

Google Glass teardown shows modest hardware begging for an upgrade

A majority of Americans find government’s secret tracking of data ‘acceptable’

Personal Democracy Forum panelists take on PRISM and NSA snooping

Cyber-security accelerator Mach37 announces applications for inaugural class

What Microsoft will and won’t let you do with games on Xbox One

Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway

EFF says PRISM is outrageous, and it’s looking for similar programs

Microsoft tries to defuse privacy issues with new policies for Xbox One

Google bans face recognition apps for Glass

Bye-bye, Google Buzz (again)

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