Opinion: Websites Ask for Permissions And Attack Forgiveness
Users increasingly encounter moments when a website asks for permission to gather some personal data or access to their device
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Security / Privacy
How Facebook’s Anti-Revenge Porn Tools Failed Katie Hill
Twitter declined to provide any comment, and instead pointed me to the company’s nonconsensual nudity policy. The original DailyMail.com tweet—nude
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How to Lock Down Your Health and Fitness Data
Unlike Apple Health, you can uninstall Google Fit from your phone if you want to make sure it’s not collecting
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The Brave Browser Extends Its Payouts to iOS
In 2016 Brendan Eich, the controversial creator of the JavaScript programming language and cofounder and former CTO of Mozilla, announced
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the Struggles of Policing the Web
For years, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare maintained that as a sort of internet utility—providing speed, reliability, and security services
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How to Opt Out of the Sites That Sell Your Personal Data
Your personal data is valuable to marketers, which is why so many companies have details about you on their books—all
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How to Keep Your Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Voice Recordings Private
After months of revelations and apologies, all the major smart assistant makers have revamped how they handle human review of
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Why Keybase Doesn’t Offer Two Factor Authentication
When you think of online security, hopefully by now two-factor authentication springs to mind. WIRED certainly pushes the feature every
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Can License Plate Readers Really Reduce Crime?
Both Flock Safety and Ring have worked with law enforcement, and the latter’s relationships with hundreds of police departments across
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In Hong Kong, Which Side Is Technology On?
It was a sweltering August Saturday in Hong Kong, and the authorities had just shut down one of the most
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