Microsoft automatically installs six bloatware apps on every Windows 10 PC, even after a clean install. This needs to stop.

The attack added to the company’s woes as it contends with fallout from its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.

It can be hard to keep track of when your information has been stolen, so we’re going to help by launching Firefox Monitor, a free service that notifies people when they’ve been part of a data breach.

This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from …

Updates its small print with a peep tweak,Friction ,internet,Google

Google warns users to check their permissions. Well, duh,Security ,Security,Privacy ,Google,gmail

XDA Recognized Developer M66B released an open source email application called FairEmail with the goal of being privacy-friendly.

Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times.

Five-year-old program provides government with direct access to email, messages, browser history, more

Idle Android devices typically send data ten times more often to Google than iOS devices do to Apple's servers, according to new research shared...

Turns out cloud storage is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Google decided to take a peek at the photos in my unused account, pick some geotagged ones from 2009, change their time stamp, and add them to Google Maps. If this isn’t invasion of privacy I don’t know what it is. The thanks for sharing message is the cherry on top.

It is surprisingly difficult to find realistic, interesting and creative privacy case studies. It is perhaps even more difficult in the case of major software. There are no proper motivations for making this kind of work public (employees often paid to do some kind of work in-house; their compensation typically

Lame: if you want to save a home or work address in Google Maps, you now have to allow activity tracking throughout Google services.

The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.

It's another blow for privacy hidden in plain sight,Security ,Security,privacy,Google,Android,gmail

microG, F-Droid, GNU Bash, Zelda sounds, FOSS applications and more for Android

The e-commerce giant’s absence from the Nordic country has allowed domestic rivals to thrive, even while locals clamor for the US tech company to expand locally.

A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.

Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.

A lawsuit by New Mexico’s attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children’s privacy law.

Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more.

Clear all Cookies except Google Cookies", thanks Chrome.

I'm not sure why people are surprised. Google has been downright evil for quite a while now. They do this in all their products, down to the point of intentionally crippling them.

For instance, since Android 5, the standard contact app doesn't allow you to modify a contact which is not synced with an account. Why even do this? The list of tracking settings that can be turned permanently on, but only temporarily off is ever growing. At some point, you just give up because it's such a silly waste of time. Google knows this very well.

Almost all the google websites, except google search, work badly on anything except chrome. I mean, google groups is rotten already on chrome, but just try it on firefox for the full experience.

Maps (the website) used to be a game-changer in the past. It was insanely fast. Nowdays I hate it. The UI is just horrid. On Firefox it just misbehaves constantly. I only use it for streetview, and still I'm appalled at how badly it has evolved.

They are pushing still impressive libraries and tools. But there's not a single of their products I still like to use.

Bromite patches for Chromium with adblocking features - bromite/bromite

If it feels like Amazon’s site is increasingly stuffed with ads, that’s because it is.

Firmware used in up to 800,000 CCTV cameras open to attack thanks to buffer overflow zero-day bug.

Facebook can identify people people "at risk" of jumping ship from one brand to a competitor. The technology raises ethical alarms among experts.

It fits a pattern that tells us that Google sees everyone as having equal value, which just isn’t true.

The online retailer is moving aggressively into digital advertising, emerging as a major competitor to Google and Facebook.

Google found the perfect way to link online ads to store purchases: credit card data