Privacy (from Latin: privatus "separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government", from privo "to deprive") is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes.
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Facebook uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without permission
Welcome to the newest episode of "Facebook screws up daily." it uploaded contact lists of over 1.5 million people since 2016, ...
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Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches
There’s an insane amount of news every day about social networks screwing up and compromising user data. So, it’s advisable ...
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Big tech’s ‘ethical guidelines’ are no substitute for real regulation
Data ethics is now a cause célèbre. “Digital ethics and privacy” shot into research and advisory company Gartner’s ...
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Smart cities are an AI-powered dystopia that's already happening
Separating the futuristic from the dystopian in the minds of the general public can be a challenge, particularly when trying ...
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How to stop people from adding you to WhatsApp groups
WhatsApp announced a feature that allows people to stop others from adding them to group without consent. Now, the feature ...
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Activision knows when its employees are having sex
The Washington Post this week reported Activision Blizzard has been using various apps to track its employees' health ...
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WhatsApp finally lets you prevent people from adding you to their shitty groups
WhatsApp is finally rolling out a feature that will prevent anyone from adding you to a group without your permission from ...
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Rebuilding trust in democracy starts with digital identity verification
As Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote, “free and fair elections are the heart of every democracy.” Despite controversy over ...
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Facebook announces a long-overdue transparency tool for News Feed
Over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm, calling for increased government regulation for internet ...
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The rise of the ubiquitous voice assistant
Apple, Amazon, and Google have done a great job educating users that voice is here! Voice recognition has been getting better ...
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No, viewing publicly shared Google Docs don't reveal your identity
Every day, millions of people use Google Docs to share and collaborate on documents. And when it comes to working on documents ...
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PSA: MetaMask reveals your Ethereum address to sites you visit, here’s how to hide it
There's a setting disabled by popular Ethereum service MetaMask by default, and its putting the privacy of cryptocurrency ...
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Think about privacy the next time you ask Alexa the weather
As long as voice assistants are on the rise, data privacy should be too. The market is now saturated with voice assistants ...
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Rift widens between Epic and gamers over data mining allegations
Epic Games is being torn a new one by gamers again. This time, it's been accused of mining users' Steam data without their ...
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to make Facebook more private with 6 key changes
Mark Zuckerberg wants to make Facebook less like a town square, and more like a living room. So he declares in a massive ...
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We’re not safe without information privacy
It’s not just because you are a criminal and the coppers might catch you. Or because you really, really hate big corporations ...
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PSA: Don’t give out your phone number for Facebook 2FA, use an app instead
It's no secret that Facebook doesn't respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the ...
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Ad blockers threaten digital marketers’ ability to understand customers
Digital advertisers know they’re screwed. Digital marketers don’t. Considering statistics like one in four US internet ...
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Facebook "owns" my family: a cautionary fable
I hate New Year. I don’t do resolutions and am generally “bah, humbug” about the whole hullabaloo. This year, my ...
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Facebook sucks for privacy, but how good are advertisers at targeting me?
Amid the massive hue and cry about Facebook’s utter disregard for data privacy, and the illicit use of personally identifiable ...
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Why data privacy is hot and machine learning is not
Looking back on the past twelve months, we will all remember cybersecurity scares, revelations of data malpractices, and ...
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Facial recognition tech sucks, but it’s inevitable
Is facial recognition accurate? Can it be hacked? These are just some of the questions being raised by lawmakers, civil libertarians, ...
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Depressing lessons 2018's endless data breaches taught us
In the days after Facebook's September announcement about a bug that may have compromised 90 million users – yes, that ...
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How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder
The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments ...
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Laws can't keep up with sex robots' ethical and privacy issues
From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation about the ...
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15 strategies everyone should know to protect their online information
As technology increases at an ever-faster rate, so too do the ways in which our information can be put at risk. With the ...
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Apple's crackdown on screen-recording apps is a privacy win
Apple’s iOS screen recording functionality – which was first introduced in version 11 back in 2017 – comes in handy ...
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Why Germany wants to block Facebook's Messenger-Instagram-WhatsApp merger
Facebook made a splash recently when CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to integrate its messaging platforms on Instagram, Messenger, ...
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Facebook's totally not listening to you, its new ad disclosure feature screams desperately
Remember hearing about - or worse, feeling like - people seeing ads related to topics they've merely talked about with friends ...
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Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016. When Google bought the advertising network ...
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This week's Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained
With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the ...
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New macOS malware steals your cookies to swipe your cryptocurrency
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered a new cryptocurrency stealing malware that specifically ...
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After Facebook, Google apologizes for running a user data collection program on iOS
Last night, just when we were trying to get our heads around Facebook's data collecting program, TechCrunch reported that ...
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How to hide everything from everyone on your PlayStation 4
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security
In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to ...
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How to review and delete your Google search history
Your Google search history includes the queries you've entered into Google search when you're signed in. Here's how to wipe ...
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US police can't force you to unlock your phone with fingerprints or face recognition
A US federal court judge ruled that police can't compel suspects to unlock their phones using biometrics like face recognition, ...
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NASA looks to secure flight data with blockchain tech
NASA is exploring potential use-cases for blockchain technology in a bid to safeguard the privacy and security of aircraft ...
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Google twists Samourai Wallet's arm to disable privacy features
Samourai Wallet, a bitcoin wallet provider, is temporarily disabling some of its privacy-related features following a request ...
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Weather apps are secretly selling your location data to the highest bidder
Location data is a funny thing. You need it to get an accurate forecast, and they, the app-maker, need it to cash in on a ...
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How blockchain technology can — and can't — prevent sexual assault
This story explores how projects like Callisto and LegalFling are using blockchain technology to store vital information ...
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The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it
The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times ...
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Google reportedly shuts down its Chinese censored search project
Google has stopped key data analysis needed for its highly contested China project, the censored search engine 'Dragonfly' ...
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Blockchains should have ‘privacy by design’ for GDPR compliance
LTO Network hosted speakers at Hard Fork Decentralized last night to tackle some of the blockchain industry's toughest GDPR ...
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This website sets your Spotify playlists to private with a single click
Nobody will know you love Peter Andre
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US government building tools to deanonymize anonymous cryptocurrencies
If you thought you were safe using privacy coins like Zcash and Monero, think again, the US government is developing forensic ...
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What GoDaddy is doing wrong about privacy — here’s what it should do
GoDaddy asks users to pay for privacy protection. It's distasteful that a large domain registrar would charge a fee for a ...
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7 EU countries accuse Google of violating GDPR by tracking users
Consumer groups in the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Greece, Slovenia, Sweden, and Norway have asked regulators to look into ...
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Uber fined €1M for 2016 data breach by Dutch and British privacy watchdogs
The Dutch Data Protection Authority and UK's Information Commissioner's Office have fined Uber over €1M the company's data ...
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Here's how we take back control over our digital identities
The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But ...
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Microchip implants are threatening workers’ rights
It’s not often trades unions and employers are equally worried about an issue threatening workers’ rights. But recently, ...
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Please appreciate Mozilla’s security-focused gift guide
Shout out Mozilla. The not-for-profit company behind the web-browser Firefox has put together a gift guide with a difference. ...
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Report: Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users
Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large ...
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We’re living in digital serfdom — trading privacy for convenience
Think for a second: compared to your grandparents and parents, what do you actually own outright? Why own when you can ...
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China has a new surveillance tool that identifies citizens by how they walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool designed to identify people by how they walk, or the shapes ...
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Twitter's privacy settings, explained
Twitter is one of the most open social media platforms on the web, which is why it might be easier to ignore the privacy ...
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When your boss knows everything about you
Big data and algorithmic decision making have become an indispensable part of the human resources toolkit at companies.
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Is Tim Cook the champion of privacy?
Today’s ceaseless data scandals have everyone talking about privacy, especially insofar as our favorite digital devices ...
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Tim Cook supports EU’s strict privacy laws — but thinks taxes are 'crap'
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, gave a keynote at ICDPPC where he called for better data policies in tech and lauded EU's GDPR. Unfortunately, ...
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50% of American WhatsApp users don't know it's owned by Facebook
Research from the search engine DuckDuckGo has revealed 50 percent of American WhatsApp users don't realize Facebook owns ...
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Here's how to keep advertisers from using your phone number on Facebook
A Gizmodo report on Wednesday detailed the latest in a long series of Facebook privacy blunders. The report said, and Facebook ...
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Without coaching our privacy, does Google even have a business?
Google is on a seemingly-ceaseless crusade to turn every one of its users into an open book that it can exploit for valuable ...
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Google and Mastercard are secretly tracking your offline purchases
Google has quietly been providing select advertisers a "stockpile" of offline credit card transaction data. After a four ...
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Facebook recently started asking banks for your financial data
A report from the Wall Street Journal today revealed Facebook was attempting to gain detailed financial information from ...
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All Android phones should run stock OS (including you Samsung!)
Countless consumers around the globe cherish the customization options available to them when it comes to their smartphones, ...
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GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it
It's been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise ...
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Facebook's Digital Literacy Library is an imperfect course in online etiquette
Facebook today released a "Digital Literacy Library," a series of education modules designed to help parents and teachers ...
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This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR
GDPR -- no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about ...
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How cryptography enables online shopping, cloud tech, and the blockchain
What do the Gallic Wars and online shopping have in common? The answer, believe it or not, is cryptography. Cryptography ...
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WhatsApp's label for forwarded messages won't be enough to battle fake news
Continuing its mission to help fight the spread of misinformation on its platform, WhatsApp is introducing a label to help ...
