Friday, November 21st, 2014
Human rights experts and Privacy International have launched a free tool allowing users to scan their computers for surveillance spyware, typically used by governments and other organizations to spy on human rights activists and journalists around the world.
This free-of-charge anti-surveillance tool, called Detekt, is an open source software app released ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an internet freedom watchdog group, is reporting that for the past few months, some ISPs in the US and Thailand have been caught removing encryption from customers’ emails, by stripping a security flag called STARTTLS from the messages.
The STARTTLS flag is an essential security and ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2014
Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps.
Want to see what kind of data it has on you? Check out Google’s own location history map, which lets you see the path you’ve traced for any given day that your smartphone has been running Google Maps.
In the ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission.
Privacy Badger was launched in an alpha version less than three months ago, ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Comcast Corp. the nation's largest Internet provider by number of homes and businesses served, Tuesday said it would begin scrambling customers' email to protect it from prying eyes.
The move came just hours after Google called out email providers, including Comcast, for not using encryption. Google Tuesday publicized for the first time the ...
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