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Staying private and anonymous online is in your best financial interests
We know advertisers love to track us online through avenues such as browser fingerprinting, tracking cookies, Bluetooth beacons, IP addresses, and other methods of de-anonymization. And that, in turn,...
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In a possible first, facial recognition has led to a wrongful arrest
This post was originally published on July 7, 2020. Facial recognition tech has been banned in U.S. cities like San Francisco and, most recently, Boston, on top of a concerted campaign to outlaw it on...
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The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating up
This post was originally published on July 2, 2020. Following the introduction of the EARN IT bill in the U.S. Senate in March—a bipartisan legislation that sought to impose government-mandated “b...
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How ExpressVPN ensures no one can slip malware into your apps
It takes many people, working across many systems, to produce and maintain an ExpressVPN app. To do it safely, we have to make sure everyone involved is properly vetted, set up, and trained. But that'...
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What is malware? How viruses, trojans, and ransomware work
Malware, or "malicious software," is a term for a variety of viruses, spyware, or ransomware (cryptolockers) that cause harm to a user, their data, or devices. The term malware implies malicious inten...
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Not so (artificially) intelligent: 8 times machine learning got it wrong
Billions of dollars have been poured into artificial intelligence (AI) research, with proponents of the technology arguing that computers can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems in...
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What is internet privacy and how should you protect your online privacy?
We use the internet for just about everything in our personal and private lives—and what we do online has become valuable data. Large corporations want to track our activity so they can serve us wit...
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What happens to your privacy if you go completely cashless?
Swiping a card or using your phone to pay for things is undoubtedly convenient but comes with obvious privacy risks. The move towards a completely cashless society endangers your privacy and, by exten...
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New Android malware targets Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp
This article was originally published on June 1, 2020. A new Android zero-day exploit, targeting primarily Thai users, has been uncovered by security researchers at Talos Intelligence. Dubbed WolfRAT,...
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Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual privacy
History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow the first seeds of the surveillance state in the U.S., where citizens gradually ...
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