privacy

These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s...

VPN providers don’t protect your privacy online. Here’s what can.

If you’ve heard that a VPN provider can help protect your privacy and security online, don’t believe the hype. The truth is that...

Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats

Discord, one of the largest group chat apps in the world, announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will...

Bug lets anyone bypass WhatsApp’s ‘View Once’ privacy feature

WhatsApp, the most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app in the world with more than two billion users, allows users to exchange pictures and...

Microsoft gives deepfake porn victims a tool to scrub images from Bing search

The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people....

Telegram quietly enables users to report private chats to moderators after founder’s arrest

Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov...

Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory. But maybe our phones really are listening to us | Arwa Mahdawi

Conspiracy theorists of the world, rip off that tinfoil hat and take a bow: you were (kinda) right. Despite the fact pretty much...

Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable

Clearview AI, the controversial U.S.-based, facial recognition startup that built a searchable database of 30 million images populated by scraping the internet for...

Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has been targeted with a series of privacy complaints after it helped itself to...

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