The first month of 2023 has brought brutal layoffs from Big Tech, a potential
ban of TikTok in the US, and another Twitter breach. But the biggest development
of this new year has to be the ascent of ChatGPT.
The chatbot can produce remarkably huma
Hackers were able to steal account details from over 200 million Twitter users
and posted the database on a hacking forum in early January 2023. These details
include users’ email addresses and Twitter handles, allowing people to
potentially identify
L’une des plus grandes histoires de la tech en 2022 n’a pas fait les gros
titres, mais elle pourrait bien montrer la direction que prennent les géants de
la tech. Elle provient de documents qui ont fait l’objet d’une fuite chez
Facebook en avril, pui
For years, Apple watched Google and Meta make billions by collecting every scrap
of people’s data to target them with ads. Now it appears it was just taking
notes.
Apple’s advertising operation follows the surveillance capitalism model of its
rivals
This week, Google agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 40 US states for $391.5
million. Law enforcement officials in those states said the company had secretly
tracked the locations of Android users who thought their location tracking was
turned off
Although Proton’s mission has always revolved around privacy, we’ve also spent a
lot of time pushing for a more level playing field online. This isn’t by
accident. The future of privacy depends on society’s ability to adopt an
alternative vision of t
TikTok’s in-app browser can track every button or link you tap and every
keystroke you type, according to an iOS Privacy review article from tech privacy
researcher Felix Krause. This goes beyond the standard data collection we’ve
sadly come to expec
Updated October 10, 2022
The Proton community trusts us to keep their information secure and private, and
we take this trust seriously. That is why we are excited to announce that we
will continue working with Bug Bounty Switzerland as part of our b
On October 28, 2021, Facebook announced the rebranding of its parent company
from Facebook to Meta. Since then, the term “metaverse” has been a hot topic of
discussion.
From facial expressions to biometric data, the metaverse has the potential to
c
Proton is a privacy-by-default alternative to Big Tech ecosystems, one that is
neutral and puts people first.
Much more than just a visual refresh that makes our apps more modern and easier
to use, the new Proton brings our services together to form
The desire for an internet that protects people’s privacy is growing. A 2019 Pew
Research poll showed that 79% of Americans report being concerned about how
companies use their data. But any privacy reforms that don’t address Big Tech’s
dominance of
