Privacy deep dives
- Privacy deep dives
There’s a saying that data is the new oil because of how valuable it is to the
digital economy. But what’s the value of your data, personally? Depending where
you live, information about you could be worth at least several hundred dollars
a year to F
The biggest new threat to privacy in 2023 wasn’t any surveillance program. It
was the false advertising Big Tech companies use to trick people into thinking
their products are private.
Like oil companies claiming fossil fuels are “green”, Google, Ap
- Privacy deep dives
If a web browser tells you you’re “incognito” and can “browse privately”, you
might assume your online activities are private and no one is collecting your
data. But you’d be wrong.
It’s precisely this ambiguity that has landed Google in the crossha
- Privacy deep dives
In the public eye, Google presents itself as a champion of privacy. “Privacy is
at the heart of everything we do,” its CEO said.
But behind closed doors, Google is telling a different story to policymakers and
actively fighting against privacy laws
- Privacy deep dives
Google has already taken privacy washing to the extreme by trying to brand
itself as “privacy focused”, even though its business model is based on
surveillance.
Lately, the company’s marketing strategy has turned toward outright Orwellian
doublespe
- Privacy deep dives
Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser by far, with over 3
billion users. Its built-in password manager, Google Password Manager, is its
default software to create and store passwords for websites and services.
Although convenient for
- Privacy deep dives
OpenPGP, the standard defining how to encrypt and sign messages using PGP, the
most widely used email encryption format, received a major upgrade, introducing
various security improvements and more modern cryptographic algorithms.
PGP has been used
- Privacy deep dives
With over 4 billion active users and around 350 million messages sent daily,
email is the most successful communications tool ever invented. Yet, it has
probably been 15 or 20 years since email has primarily been about
communications.
Today, email i
Google, along with several other Big Tech companies, are now trying to claim
they are concerned about the state of privacy on the internet. Google’s CEO even
wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times saying, “privacy must be equally
available to
- Privacy deep dives
The dark web is much like the regular World Wide Web we’re all familiar with,
except that the dark web provides much greater privacy.
The dark web has a reputation for being a place where you can find and contact
drug dealers and hitmen. There’s tru
- Privacy deep dives
A new social media app has entered the marketplace for your attention, courtesy
of Meta. Threads, an apparent copycat of Twitter, lets you post 500-character,
text-based updates and has a similar user interface. The app is part of
Instagram, so you c