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The Tor Project has released an official statement confirming rumors about a long standing attack on the browser that may have put the anonymity of users at risk. According to the released blog post, the attack began in January. As of February and until the discovery on July 4th, users […]
In a case that could far reaching impact for companies like Google and social networks, the European Union Court of Justice has ruled in favor of people’s “right to be forgotten”. The original complaint came from a Spanish man who says he found a newspaper article from all the way back in […]
Recently a man was arrested when it was learned that he allegedly leaked information on Windows 8. The former employee was caught after Microsoft went through a blogger’s Hotmail account to find information on his source for the leaked story. They insist it is perfectly legal for them to have […]
Yahoo has struck out against Britain’s GCHQ after documents showed the platform’s webcam chat led to more than one and a half million images being illegally stored by the agency. The data collection occurred between 2008 – 2012, as part of an operation known as Optic Nerve. An experimental program, […]
As privacy concerns continue to circle in everyone’s minds, and the NSA and related scandals dominate headlines, the new Blackphone smartphone is hitting the market. The Blackphone, brainchild of Silent Circle and Geeksphone, will put privacy first. The phone, which will be revealed in Barcelona during the Mobile World Conference […]
Speaking directly to consumers who are concerned about their lack of privacy in the wake of the NSA’s continued surveillance, Microsoft released a statement on their official blog this morning. They are officially speaking out about this, and other privacy matters related to government spying. Last week we reported that […]
When it comes to privacy issues, it doesn’t get much more questionable than Facebook. Regularly causing controversy for their terms of service, the website is once more upping the ante and considering monitoring cursor movements for greater data collection. Chief of Facebook’s analytics team, Ken Rudin, said that the site […]
