The advertising industry is feeling even more pressure from Apple's new privacy features in iOS 13 that limit location tracking.

Plausible is a simple, lightweight web analytics service. Monitor your website traffic while respecting your visitors' privacy.

People often surrender their data privacy to their continuously listening voice assistants without understanding the implications.

But it’s probably not using speech recognition.

I did my masters research in Android security and privacy: Google’s Android enables platforms like Facebook and other ad companies to abuse APIs that invade you’re privacy. Did you know on Android devs can get a list of apps installed on your phone without a permissions prompt?— Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) March 25, 2018

Market researchers have used these tricks for years

Some users asked me about a Gizmodo article that claims everybody should stop using Telegram because we don't encrypt chats. This article is an astounding example of shoddy reporting that consists almost entirely of incorrect and misleading statements. I'll begin by refuting the most blatant examples: 1. Always encrypted The author deliberately confuses encryption and end-to-end encryption and claims that some data on Telegram is sent and stored unencrypted. This is not true. All data is encrypted. Secret Chats…

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Apps are using ad-tracking audio signals that your phone can hear, but you can't.

Politicians often try to score points by blaming encrypted messaging apps for all the evils of modern society. Government officials call for backdoors in popular end-to-end encrypted apps to "stop terrorism", neglecting the fact that this can't and won't work. Worse than useless, undermining encryption can only expose hundreds of millions of lawful users to hackers and corrupt officials in less fortunate countries – as well as make unchecked mass surveillance possible again. We often get questions from journalists…

At a recent government privacy conference, more than two-thirds of the research came from authors with financial ties to Google.

New York Times CEO Mark Thompson caused a minor stir a couple weeks ago when he gave a speech at an advertising conference declaring that “No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it.” He went on to say that while the Times is “not […]

Disclaimer: This post is solely my personal opinion, as someone from outside the team who consulted on security for Allo. Update: I erased...

The Norwegian Consumer Council analysed the terms of 20 mobile apps. The purpose is to uncover potential threats to consumer protection hidden in the end-user terms and privacy policies of apps.

Apple hires plenty of interns all year round, but one particular new addition revealed this week caught the eye given the company's current position opposing a controversial order to enable the FBI to access a locked iPhone.

Selling data has never been as invisible or sneaky as it is today.

From facial recognition to personal data collection, this thing is downright scary -- and so are the implications.

Wait, who sees my credit card bill, again?

Google's bombshell $3.2B acquisition of connected-home company Nest Labs makes simple sense on paper: Nest CEO Tony Fadell says he'll gain the ability to scale his business without worrying about...