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How to Tell Which Emails Quietly Track You
Your emails know more about you than you might think, like when you open them or when you forward them to others. But you can reclaim your privacy.
Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud
It’s the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.
Microsoft’s Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK’s National Health Service.
Clubhouse’s Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth
The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations.
There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain
Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We’re being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?
Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don’t Turn to Telegram
Because the chat app doesn’t encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.
A Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos
Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone’s Encryption
New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
An Absurdly Basic Bug Let Anyone Grab All of Parler’s Data
The “free speech” social network also allowed unlimited access to every public post, image, and video.