Have today’s privacy policies made us a society of liars?
The importance of data privacy is becoming more and more prevalent: From major retailer breaches to identity and healthcare theft, the general public is growing more aware of …
Most people have done nothing to protect their privacy
Over 260 million people have been victims of data breaches and increased risk of identity theft since the Target revelations, yet nearly 80 percent have done nothing to …
Set up email encryption in half an hour
As part of the global Reset the Net action, the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes computer user freedom and aims to defend the rights of all …
Comcast will start encrypting email to and from Gmail accounts
Google’s unveiling of a new section to its Transparency Report that, among other things, shows which services support encryption in transit, has quickly lead to another …
American Express credit card data exposed
Corporate data breaches have seen a spike in recent months, and unfortunately American Express is the latest to join a long list of companies affected by hackers infiltrating …
How do the new features in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 impact security and privacy?
At the annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) Apple announced the latest versions of OS X and iOS. With this announcement came a long list of new features and …
Safari to include privacy-protecting search engine
Apple announced the inclusion of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track its users, in the future versions of Safari on iOS and OS X. This makes DuckDuckGo the …
12,000 users ask Google to forget them
12,000 pleas from users looking to be forgotten have been submitted to Google in the first 24 hours since the company created a dedicated submission page for such requests, …
Researcher automates discovery of Facebook users’ hidden friends
Putting a friend on Facebook on your “private” list does not guarantee you that anyone else won’t be able to spot the relationship, says researcher Shay …
NSA collects photos to feed facial recognition programs
The NSA has been collecting photos of people’s faces at the tune of 55,000 images every day, and has been feeding the images into its facial recognition programs, James …
Mobile ad libraries create major risk for enterprise data
Every day at Mojave Threat Labs, our research team analyzes thousands of mobile apps using more than 200 individual risk factors. One of the key risk factors that we track is …
Free mobile privacy platform unveiled
Boolean Tech announced ShieldMe, a secure and free mobile privacy platform that allows users to connect with other people without ever giving up their phone number. ShieldMe …