Brave’s privacy-centric web browser has continued to grow in popularity over the past year. According to the data available, the browser’s monthly number of users more than doubled over the course of the year, surpassing the 50 million...
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In the fall, Google presented the latest generation of the flagship Pixel 6 smartphones. Now, a few months later, the German company Nitrokey, which specializes in the manufacture of devices with increased user protection, has presented the...
Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike said earlier this week that Telegram’s reputation for cybersecurity was overblown, adding that Meta’s WhatsApp and Messenger were safer. Now, criticizing American messaging services on his Telegram channel spoke the...
Telegram has earned a reputation for being a safer alternative to WhatsApp or Messenger, comparable to the more well-known Signal messenger with increased data protection. Signal founder and CEO Moxie Marlinspike disagrees, saying that...
According to the results of a survey conducted The Washington Post, Amazon and Google users trust more than Apple when it comes to the processing of their personal data and online activity. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of those...
DuckDuckGo, best known for its privacy-enhanced search engine of the same name, is developing a desktop browser that prioritizes protecting users from being tracked online. This was announced by CEO Gabriel Weinberg, who promised that the desktop...
Google has announced new terms of use for its proprietary cloud storage Google Drive, according to which the search giant will soon begin to restrict access to files that, in its opinion, violate company policy. According to the blog post, Google...
Apple has quietly removed all references to its device detecting child abuse images (CSAM) from its child safety web page. It is speculated that the company’s controversial plan to scan all images on iPhones and iPads for banned photographs...
Google has shared some details about the innovations that will appear in a special version of the Android 12 Go edition, designed for low-cost devices. The developer has made the system work faster, made it more energy efficient and offered new...
Developers from Meta continue to implement new features in the popular WhatsApp messenger that are aimed at increasing the level of user privacy. This is an option that hides the user’s online status from strangers. Image Source: Alfredo...
Apple’s free interpretation of its privacy policy allows apps such as Facebook and Sanpchat to continue to track users’ ad-targeting activities, even if they have blocked apps from collecting data, according to the Financial Times. Image...
Together with more than 50 partners from non-governmental organizations around the world, Meta supported the launch of the resource StopNCII.org, which aims to help prevent the sharing of intimate images on the Internet without the consent of the...
Smartphones on the new Snapdragon can give up privacy – they will have an always active front camera
The front camera of smartphones built on the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will always be able to search for the user’s face, even when the device is locked. About this during the presentation of the latest flagship platform Snapdragon 8 Gen 1...
A post on the official Twitter blog indicated that the social network is updating its existing privacy policy and “expands its scope to include “private media”“. This does not mean that Twitter will require the consent of all...
WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy for European users. The change stems from Irish regulators imposing a record fine on the messaging service for violating strict EU privacy rules. Image Source: WhatsApp Starting Monday, WhatsApp’s...
It became known that the largest social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube have lost about $ 9.85 billion due to Apple’s new privacy policy for applications published in the App Store. This is a policy that no longer...
Google has launched a new security feature that will allow people under the age of 18 to request removal of their images and photos from search results. This feature was originally announced in August along with new restrictions on ad targeting for...
US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officials began examining internal documents leaked by a former Facebook employee suggesting that the products Facebook may harm users. The FTC is looking at the research to see if the company is in breach of...
Facebook is changing the way it calculates user profiles for advertising purposes, which will increase the total number of accounts available to advertisers. This is supposedly necessary to improve user privacy. Bloomberg Previously, the company...
Mozilla now shows ads right in the Firefox address bar in the form of contextual sentences… This innovation has already been noticed by US users. Mozilla says the feature was introduced in Firefox 92 in September and is allowing the company to...
