In May this year, it became known that mobile versions of the DuckDuckGo browser, which offers a high level of privacy protection and is positioned by developers as a safe product, are blocking Google and Facebook trackers.*, but allows Microsoft...
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Handing in a phone for repair has traditionally posed a privacy risk, so it’s recommended that you first delete personal photos from the device’s memory whenever possible – they may become the property of a dishonest owner or...
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and the Munich Institute of Technology (Germany) have published the results research on the subject of user privacy in the Metaverse – the worlds of virtual and augmented reality...
It became known that one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, is providing the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with a set of tools that allow tracking and identifying platform users. This is indicated by documents that...
Mega Cloud Storage Service was founded by Kim Dotcom and has been around for almost 10 years. According to the authors of the project, the service uses end-to-end encryption of user data, so even company employees cannot access it. However, a recent...
Short video service TikTok is embroiled in another US user privacy scandal. According to publication BuzzFeed NewsCiting audio recordings of the company’s internal meetings, TikTok employees in China have repeatedly accessed US users’...
WhatsApp has added a number of new features to its arsenal, including muting individual users during group calls. The possibility is useful when someone forgets to do it themselves or when there are several interlocutors in the same room, creating...
The German Federal Cartel Office is investigating Apple’s tracking rules for third-party applications as part of a new antitrust investigation. The regulator wants to determine the likelihood that such a practice will give the IT giant a...
Mobile versions of DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, positioned by developers as a safe product, transmit user data to Microsoft and do not block its trackers. This was noticed by security researcher Zach Edwards during a browser security audit. Image...
A year ago, Apple released iOS 14.5, which brought into effect a new privacy policy that allows iPhone owners to prevent their online activities from being tracked to form a targeted advertising profile. Some researchers say the initiative...
Google has announced changes to its search engine’s privacy policy to allow users to remove more personal and contact information from search results. Now users can ask Google to remove certain websites from search results that contain data...
Google reported about the intention to change the cookie policy for European users – now it’s easier to opt-out of tracking with them. The change will also affect countries that are not members of the EU. Image source: blog.google The...
The latest beta version of the WhatsApp messenger has a new privacy feature – the ability to hide the status of your last presence in the application from some contacts. Image source: wabetainfo.com Last visit status shows when the user last...
Apple today announced that it is preparing a series of updates for AirTag trackers designed to make it even harder for these devices to secretly spy on you. Innovations are distributed during a staged deployment. In an upcoming software update...
The National Commission for Informatics and Civil Liberties (CNIL) in France believes that the world’s most popular web analytics service, Google Analytics, poses a threat to the privacy of user data. According to the regulator, the IT company...
A study by URL Genius found that TikTok and YouTube collect the most user data of any social networking app. While YouTube does this for its own benefit, TikTok allows third-party trackers to collect data, making it hard to predict how that...
The European Union has given WhatsApp a month to respond to regulators’ concerns over new terms of service that have outraged consumers and online privacy experts over the past year. The European Commission said Thursday WhatsApp should...
Attorneys general in three US states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against Google for tricking Android users into obtaining location information and other personal information. The statement says the needlessly confusing settings...
A group of American lawmakers has proposed legislation that would greatly simplify the content of user agreements on websites. Studies show that most users accept them without even reading them, and some web services take advantage of this. Image...
Last year, Google quietly rolled out a new feature for Android that allows users to disable 2G tethering on their smartphones. It is reported that such a move should increase user safety, as 2G networks are often used by cellular network simulators...
