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The privacy nightmare in our wallets
Google’s been keeping track of your online purchases, hotel bookings, and newsletter subscriptions for years, but a new privacy concern takes this several steps further. An experiment by The Washing...
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Organizations push Google for tighter control over bloatware
Is your Android device glitchy and unresponsive? Part of the problem could be bloatware: pre-bundled apps and software that can’t be deleted, no matter how hard you try. Despite Android dominating g...
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Global Internet and Social Media Censorship Report, 2020
NOTE: This post was originally published on January 24, 2020 Around the world, internet censorship remains a popular tool of authoritarian governments to prevent information from spreading, to stop pe...
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In a win for privacy advocates, DuckDuckGo can now be your default search engine in the EU
New Android users in the EU are set to benefit from an antitrust ruling that the European Union issued last year. Starting March, users will be given the option to choose between four search engines w...
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ExpressVPN and Dynabook (formerly Toshiba) announce global partnership
This post was originally published on January 15, 2020. We're pleased to announce our global partnership with Dynabook (formerly the PC unit of Toshiba) to provide Dynabook users with essential intern...
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The founder of Yale’s Privacy Lab is worried by the coming age of surveillance and facial recognition
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on January 14, 2020. Sean O’Brien later joined us as Principal Researcher to establish our new Digital Security Lab, focusing on high-quality, ori...
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Google’s adds Fitbit to its IoT-controlled dystopia
This post was originally published on January 9, 2020 Ever since Google took control of Fitbit last year in a 2.1 billion USD deal, there have been mounting concerns over what the agreement represents...
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3.2 million ‘right to be forgotten’ requests since 2014
This post was originally published on January 2, 2020. It’s been over five years since the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” came into effect. Surely the entity most heavily impacted by...
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ExpressVPN adds dark mode to Chrome and Firefox browser extensions
This post was originally published on December 31, 2019. At ExpressVPN, our priority is creating cutting-edge technology to safeguard your privacy. But we think tech should be easy on the eyes, too. T...
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Governments are demanding user data from Facebook in record numbers
According to Facebook’s latest transparency report, government requests for user data reached their highest level ever in the first six months of 2019, numbering 128,617. The U.S. government asked f...
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