Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

LinkedIn has been dragged to court over allegations of user data misuse.

Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.

Not every app or service is trying to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps.

Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted by default, the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps simply doesn’t exist on Signal’s servers.

Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.

Privacy experts and advocates have raised concerns about Meta’s plans.

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

Privacy experts say the requests are unconstitutional.

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.

The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 772 external partners for targeted advertising.

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.

"I have nothing to hide." That's what most people say when I start a conversation about privacy. Have you ever wondered why you should use software that protects your privacy and the privacy of the people you communicate with?

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Using Google Analytics in a legally compliant way is still possible in Europe. Here we explain how.

During our security research we found that smart phones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm. This data is sent without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution. This is possible because the Qualcomm chipset itself sends the data, circumventing any potential Android operating system setting and protection mechanisms. Affected smart phones are Sony Xperia XA2 and likely the Fairphone and many more Android phones which use popular Qualcomm chips.

Nous n’avons pas envie d’être contrôlables par quelque « Big Brother » que ce soit. Qu’il existe déjà ou que l’on anticipe son émergence, le mieux est sans doute de faire en sorte qu’il ne puisse pas utiliser contre nous, tous ces merveilleux outils que nous offrent – ou que lui offrent – les technologies modernes.