- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 4th, 2017
Encrypted Messaging App Signal Gains Tons of Users Fearing Trump's Policies
Trump's attacks on people's online privacy have started
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- March 30th, 2017
Cards Against Humanity Creator to Buy, Publish Congress Net Data If Possible
If the data ever becomes available, he'll buy it
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- March 29th, 2017
Crowdfunding Campaings Launched to Buy Republicans' Internet Data from ISPs
The campaigns target all those who voted in favor of allowing ISPs to sell people's data to the highest bidder
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- March 23rd, 2017
US Senate Votes to Kill Broadband Privacy Rules
Broadband companies won't have to get your explicit permission to sell off your sensitive data to advertisers
- Other Search Engines
- By Gabriela Vatu
- January 25th, 2017
DuckDuckGo Finally Hits 10 Billion Searches
It took the search engine a lot of years to get here
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 3rd, 2015
The Internet Doesn't Discriminate, Collects Huge Amounts of Data on Your Kids as Well
67% of children apps and websites collect data on kids
- Other Search Engines
- By Andreea Murgu
- March 19th, 2015
Safer Online Browsing with Opera
Opera acquires an online privacy company called SurfEasy
- Social Networking Related
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 26th, 2014
Facebook Can Carry On with Lawsuit Against Pointless Bulk Search Warrants
Out of the 381 users affected by a warrant, only 62 were charged, which makes Facebook consider the warrant pointless
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 11th, 2014
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Dozens Others Ask Govt to Protect Email Privacy
Dozens of companies and advocates want the Govt to vote on ECPA amendment
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 5th, 2014
Facebook Wants You to Check Your Privacy Settings – Photos & Video
Facebook's Privacy Checkup is rolling out to all users
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- August 6th, 2014
Department of Defense Denies NSA Received Tor User Data After Research on Vulnerabilities Reuters
The research only looked for vulnerabilities, not for users
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- August 5th, 2014
Here's How Gmail Detected the Child Abuse Photos Inside Gmail
Gmail has an automated system looking for specific hashes of illegal photos
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- July 30th, 2014
UK: “Right to Be Forgotten” Ruling Is Unworkable, the Expression Is Misleading
There are too many issues with the ruling to ignore it
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- July 25th, 2014
Google Agreed to Take Down Half of the “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests Handled So Far
The European decision translates into tens of thousands of links removed
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- July 25th, 2014
Russia Wants to Crack Tor, Offers Budget Reward
The Tor network is still safe, but the Russians are trying to change that
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- July 22nd, 2014
Google Has 18 Months to Comply with Italian Order for a New Data Use Policy
The country's regulators are forcing Google to comply with their own privacy policies
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- July 19th, 2014
Judge Approves Warrant for Gmail User's Full Email Collection Reuters
It doesn't seem to matter that most of the emails may be private and unrelated to the case