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Signal says Cellebrite phone-hacking tool used by police is easily hacked
And that's not all.
By Jack Morse
Apple knows AirTags can be abused and is trying to get ahead of it
The tracking devices might be used to do more than find lost keys.
By Jack Morse
The many private companies in charge of vaccine passports
Here are the companies U.S. states, counties, and cities have tapped to manage vaccine passports, so far.
By Rachel Kraus
More than a million Clubhouse users had their account info leaked online
Clubhouse joined the social media data leak club over the weekend.
By Alex Perry
Facebook data for 533 million users leaked in 2019 and hey, it's still out there
It's old news but that doesn't mean it's not important.
With vaccine passports on the horizon, pushback — reasonable and otherwise — grows
Privacy and civil liberties experts warn about vaccine passports. So do conspiracy theorists.
By Jack Morse
How to make your Instagram Stories more secure
Privacy goes beyond "Close Friends."
Dispo repeatedly changes privacy policy after location data mistake
What's going on over there?
By Jack Morse
Should you be concerned about Clubhouse?
For starters, deleting the app...isn't easy.
How to make your smart TV a little dumb (and why you should)
Your smart TV is spying on you. Here's how to stop it.
By Jack Morse
Deleting your Clubhouse account is a nightmare, especially for sex workers
The buzzy social media app makes it almost impossible to quickly delete an account. That can have devastating effects.
By Jack Morse
TikTok agrees to $92 million settlement in class action privacy lawsuit
Anyone in the U.S. who used TikTok or Musical.ly before Feb. 25 this year can submit a claim for a fraction of the payout.
By Amanda Yeo
Facebook admits it bungled its WhatsApp privacy policy update
And throws Facebook Messenger under the bus in the process.
By Jack Morse
Amazon's driver monitoring app is an invasive nightmare
Amazon is tracking delivery workers' every move.
By Sasha Lekach
How to delete your Clubhouse account and why you might want to
Requiring your contact list to send invites is kinda sketchy.
By Jack Morse
Border agents can search phones without a warrant, court rules
This contradicts a previous ruling, and is a privacy nightmare.
By Jack Morse
What Apple's big tech frenemies think of its iOS 14 privacy updates
Facebook, Snap, Twitter, and Google have all weighed in.
By Rachel Kraus
How to hide your iPhone's unique name from apps (and why you should)
Advertising identifiers can be tied back to people's real names.
By Jack Morse
9 scary revelations from 40 years of facial recognition research
The largest study of facial recognition databases to date show its revealing origins and flaws.
By Rachel Kraus
What is end-to-end encryption, and what makes it so secure?
It's a must-have if you want to keep your data private.
FTC finalizes settlement with Zoom over misleading encryption claims
Zoom had an end-to-end encryption problem.
By Jack Morse
Facebook and Apple's PR war seriously heats up
Both companies took their very public fight to a new level.
By Rachel Kraus
