by Surur
11 hours
If you care about your privacy you mean need to put down your iPhone, after a serious implementation bug in Safari means any website is able to read some of your private data and recent browsing history, even when using Private Br...
by Surur
6 days
In June 2021 at WWDC Apple announced a number of privacy-related features, including a feature they call “Private Relay”, which hides your IP address by passing your internet data between Apple’s servers and an...
by Surur
1 week
Cookie consent pop-ups are ubiquitous, and while many have simple allow or deny buttons, some make it very easy to allow but very hard to deny, causing many users simply to click allow just to allow them to get on with their task....
by Surur
4 weeks
A coalition of tech companies, publishers and advertisers that call themselves the Movement for an Open Web have banded together to ask the UK Competition and Markets Authority to block Google’s plans to end 3rd party cookie...
by Surur
1 month
WhatsApp has just released an update to their WhatsApp Desktop Beta app for Windows, taking it to version 2.2149.1. The update does not come with an official changelog, but WABetaInfo managed to find a hidden privacy feature in th...
by Rahul
1 month
WhatsApp will no longer display your Last Seen status to unknown contacts, the company’s customer support has confirmed while replying to query. According to WhatsApp, the new privacy measures will prevent unknown contacts f...
by Pradeep
2 months
Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. Apple is seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services, or devices. ...
by Surur
3 months
Since 2015, WhatsApp users have been able to backup their messages and media to Google Drive. This was ostensible a private, encrypted backup, but an investigation by the State Attorneys General who are accusing Google of antitrus...
by Surur
5 months
The Wall Street Journal reports that WhatsApp has been fined €225 million, or $266 million by the European Union due to GDPR-related violations. “WhatsApp didn’t live up to requirements” to tell Europeans how the data is c...