Researcher finds one of the databases used to track Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang.

Exclusive: Advertisers are collecting info that can help them skirt an Android privacy feature, according to new research.

If no one reads the terms and conditions, how can they continue to be the legal backbone of the internet?

Facebook, facing an onslaught of privacy-related controversies and a growing push for regulation, has in the last month hired three high-profile tech industry critics and commentators to beef up its privacy policy team in Washington, D.C.A Facebook spokesman said the hires, who come from Access ...

Researchers watch publishers watching you, ignore privacy settings, run over mere HTTP

A checklist for staying safe on the internet

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but can’t stop using), and products that dictate how we communicate and how we are seen. Their devices and services make our lives easier than they’ve ever been before, yet more complicated in unforeseen ways. They are so ubiquitous and fundamental to our lives that their offerings have replaced core functions of our brains. We’re now realizing it’s as possible to get addicted to these buttons, clicks, screens, and scrolls as it is to get hooked on nicotine or heroin. Who, after al...

In these politically uncertain times, developers can help to **defend their users’ personal privacy** by adopting the _Privacy by Design (PbD)_ framework. These common-sense steps will become a requirement under the EU's imminent data protection overhaul, but the benefits of the framework go far beyond legal compliance. Let’s give credit where credit is due. The global political upheaval of the past 12 months has done more to get developers thinking about privacy, surveillance and **defensive user protection** than ever before. The risks and threats to ourselves, and to our users, are no lo...