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L'UFC-Que Choisir se tourne vers la CNIL pour lui signaler les tactiques de Google, Facebook et Microsoft pour orienter l'usager quand il se trouve dans les réglages des paramètres de confidentialité. [...]

Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. Frequently, it's some long-forgotten site they haven't even thought about in

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Bypass Paywalls for Firefox. Contribute to iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox development by creating an account on GitHub.

New court documents in the Roundup litigation allege Monsanto paid internet trolls to post comments on social media to counter bad publicity. Details here.

Since Privacy International ranked Google worst in the world for Privacy in its 2007 privacy survey for its unique “comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy,” Google has had at least 24 more public scandals/controversies over privacy/security.

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In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and discussion of these issues. In the ensuing...

A mysterious (and fake) Chrome extension. A clever data exfiltration scheme. They would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling security analysts using ExtraHop Reveal(x)! Follow along as we go from threat detection to response in this real-life threat hunt with network traffic analysis.

Foreign propagandists are getting a strong foothold in France, and the traditional media can’t fight it

More than 200 pages of confidential emails are shared online by Parliament's fake news inquiry.

Auto thefts are on the rise across the Greater Toronto Area, by 30 per cent in the city alone, and wireless key fobs may have a role to play.

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

Christina Farr used to spend 5 hours a week posting and interacting with friends on Instagram. She quit cold this summer, and her life changed dramatically for the better.

Sponsored ads on Amazon’s baby registries are leading the family and friends of new parents to make purchases of unwanted gifts.