If Chrome is your browser of choice then Alphabet would like to offer you several new reasons to reconsider that preference. The first is their planned implementation of Google's Privacy Sandbox, which…
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When most people thing of web browsers, Chrome, Firefox and occasionally Edge are immediately mentioned. Chrome is fully controlled by a company that seems to have dropped a word from their old…
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Firefox have long had a promise to never sell your personal data and "to protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your...
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You and your friends aren't crazy for wondering why suspiciously targeted ads show up on your phones; your Siri enabled devices may well have recorded conversations you had no idea it did,…
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At this point most of us have given up on the fight against Smart TVs; like an automatic transmission a dumb TV isn't even an option you can pay extra for. We…
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Apple has recently started requiring anyone developing iOS apps to justify their use APIs that can be used for device fingerprinting. These include things like File timestamp APIs, System boot...
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Just in time for the holiday season, Mozilla released a rather depressing list of insecure devices and services sold by a number of companies which now includes Google. The Privacy Not Included…
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If you make use of Microsoft's Bing AI Services you should be aware that the terms of use have changed, and not necessarily for the better. There are two of the terms…
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A large team of researches from the University of Washington, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, and Northeastern University have published a paper titled, "Your Echos are heard: Tracking, profiling, and ad-targeting…
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Your Firefox won't look very different today but there has been a change behind the scenes which may please you. In order to mitigate the privacy concerns which the continual evolution of…
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The EFF and other privacy minded individuals and organizations have had a few problems with Amazon's Ring products and it looks like that is not going to be resolved any time soon. …
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Track THIS is a website that will give advertisers an interesting (and probably wrong) view of who you are. Once you select a persona, the website will launch a...
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The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
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Google has responded to the news stories posted last week at various news sites about the secretive data collection many apps on Google Play indulge in. Developers of Android apps...
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It has been some time since I last looked at Opera, and while I used to be a big fan of the alternative web browser my interest waned around the time that…
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As expected, Facebook has added some questionable features to the Oculus Rift and if any of it surprises you then you haven't been paying attention. The Register went through it...
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Microsoft is revisiting an old issue with private browsing which we have seen too many times unfortunately. In 2010 Firefox's private browsing broke and left site visits on your computer and in…
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On Christmas Day, Valve had a few hours of problems. Their servers were being overloaded by malicious traffic. The best analogy that I could provide would...
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