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Europe Makes the Case to Ban Biometric Surveillance
Companies are racing to track everything about you. It could be a convenient way to reduce fraud—or seriously creepy and discriminatory.
DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
The company best known for its search engine is launching a new set of tools aimed at creating an “easy button” for protecting your data online.
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch
BravoMovies isn’t real. But it puts in a remarkable amount of effort to convince you that it is.
Apple Exec Calls Mac Malware Levels Unacceptable Under Oath
Ireland’s ransomware crisis continues, a Russian scammer gets sentenced, and more of the week’s top security news.
Google Is Finally Taking Smartwatches Seriously
Wear OS—now just dubbed Wear—is seeing its biggest update yet, with integrations from Fitbit and a new partnership with Samsung.
What’s Google Floc? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
There’s a battle raging over how advertisers can target us on the web—or whether they should be able to target us at all.
Don’t Buy Into Facebook’s Ad-Tracking Pressure on iOS 14.5
The company tells Apple users that tracking helps keep those platforms “free of charge,” but opting out now doesn’t mean paying up later.
Google’s Grand Plan to Eradicate Cookies Is Crumbling
Regulators in the EU and competitors have raised concerns about the company’s proposals to rewrite the rules of online advertising.