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Simple Ways To Prevent Your Smart Home From Spying On You

Simple Ways to Prevent Your Smart Home from Spying on You

Smart home gadgets are amazing and convenient, but are they always safe? Learn how to prevent your smart home from spying on you without giving anything up.

By Crystal Crowder – Apr 13, 2020

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How Differential Privacy Is Keeping Data Both Useful and Confidential

The goal of differential privacy is simple: make sure that the collected data has as much privacy as it would if the data had never been recorded.

By Andrew Braun – Mar 20, 2020

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I Have Nothing to Hide, So Why Should I Care About Privacy?

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right? The answer is wrong. You should protect your privacy even if you have nothing to hide.

By Andrew Braun – Feb 10, 2020

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Mercedes Admits Even Your Cars Are Tracking You

Mercedes admitted that all the cars it sells are fittedwith tracking devices. And they aren’t the only ones. All modern vehciles have tje same capability.

By Laura Tucker – Aug 22, 2019

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Add Facebook to the List. Messenger Also Saves Recordings to Improve AI

Facebook has admitted that Messengers, like Google, Apple, and Amazon, also saved recording so that they can train teh A.I.

By Laura Tucker – Aug 15, 2019

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Apple in Trouble in Canada for Planned Obsolescence of Devices

Despite Apple’s “planned obsolescence” being disproven, they have lost a lawsuit in Quebec, Canada claiming they were dishonest.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 22, 2019

News Browser Extensions Privacy Featured

As Many as 4 Million People Use Browser Extensions that Are Putting Privacy at Risk

It’s been determined that as many as 4 million people have been giving up data unknowingly through Google Chrome and Firefox extensions.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 19, 2019

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Are Private Email Services Worth the Money?

For those looking to switch from Gmail because of privacy concerns, the next question to ask is, “Are private email services worth the money?” Here’s our answer.

By Alexander Fox – Jun 13, 2019

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Apple Adds Privacy with “Sign in with Apple,” But Will Users Trust It?

Apple announced “Sign in with Apple” this week, a new option to allow users to sign in to other apps and websites with their Apple ID. Will it be trusted?

By Laura Tucker – Jun 5, 2019

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DHS: Foreign Governments May Be Spying on You Through Your VPN

DHS issued a warning that their foreign adversaries had an interest in exploiting VPN services, meaning they could be spying on you through your VPN.

By Laura Tucker – Jun 3, 2019

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How Does DuckDuckGo Protect Your Privacy

DuckDuckGo is known as a search engine that protects your privacy, but how exactly does DuckDuckGo work without keeping personal information? Let’s find out!

By Tracey Rosenberger – Apr 15, 2019

5 Useful Tools to Manage Telemetry Settings and Improve Privacy in Windows 10

Windows 10 collects a lot of data about you with its telemetry gathering options. These five tools allow you to configure privacy options in Windows.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Feb 22, 2019

Facebook Deals with Another Privacy Scandal, this Time with Its Closed Groups

Some Facebook users are lulled into a sense of security when they join or start a closed group, but there are people who view the content: marketers.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 20, 2019

Some iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen without Your Knowledge

Some iPhone apps, including Expedia and Air Canada, are using Glassbox, a customer experience analytics firm to record users’ screens and collect data on their users.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 8, 2019

Apple Touts “What Happens on Your iPhone, Stays on Your iPhone” in CES

Apple hung a billboard with a play on the famous Las Vegas slogan, touting “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone” near the CES location.

By Laura Tucker – Jan 7, 2019

What Are Supercookies, Zombie Cookies, and Evercookies, and Are They a Threat?

Other than the normal browser’s cookies, there are others that are built to keep tabs on you. Learn what are supercookie, zombie cookie and everncookies and how you can get rid of them.

By Andrew Braun – Oct 2, 2018

Protect your Facebook Account from Hackers

Your Facebook account contains a lot of information that hackers like to get their hands on. Learn how to protect your Facebook account with these steps.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Sep 26, 2018

Which Email Providers Are Scanning Your Emails?

There are plenty of email service providers, but which one should you trust? Find out which email providers are scanning your emails.

By Andrew Braun – Sep 24, 2018

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Google to Allow Employers to Track Their Staff Using G Suite

The Google G Suite productivity apps will now show your employe if you’re using their apps with the help of the new Work Insights tool.

By Laura Tucker – Sep 20, 2018

Who Are the Five, Nine, and Fourteen Eyes, and What Do They Do?

The Five, Nine, and Fourteen Eyes refers to sets of international intelligence alliances who compose agreements that govern data collection and sharing between governments.

By Andrew Braun – Sep 20, 2018

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In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make four memory frames suffer ten page faults after three frames suffered nine, leaving generations of operating-systems students staring at the moment more memory became the wrong answer

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In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago, evidence that Neanderthals had walked 336 metres into darkness with fire and built architecture deep underground long before modern humans reached Europe

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Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889, setting the pension age at 70 after years of fighting socialists with bans, laws, and a promise few workers would live long enough to use

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When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.

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When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.

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