Data Protection

Tech

Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data

09.07.22

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

04.26.22

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
‘It’s Bad Design On Purpose’ – Why Website Cookie Banners Look Like That

08.04.21

By Bianca Ferrari
Life

‘Incognito Mode’ Is Actually Pretty Useless

11.20.20

By Sebastian Meineck
Tech

Am I a Jerk for Refusing to Use a Coronavirus Contact Tracing App?

05.13.20

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users’ Browsing History

02.12.20

By Joseph Cox
Shashi Tharoor Claims TikTok Is a Way for China to Illegally Spy on India

07.02.19

By Shamani Joshi
News

Senators Want to Put a Price Tag on Your Data to Protect You Against Big Tech

06.24.19

By David Uberti
Tech

Facebook Quietly Changes Search Tool Used by Investigators, Abused By Companies

06.10.19

By Joseph Cox
News

Uber just got hit with another fine for the massive data breach it tried to hide

11.27.18

By Tim Hume
Tech

How to Use GDPR To Stop Data Breaches Screwing You Over

07.16.18

By Joseph Cox
News

Snapchat’s CEO just got real bitchy about Facebook’s data leak

05.30.18

By David Gilbert

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Eva Pascoe, founder of Cyberia, poses at the cyber cafe in London. All photos courtesy of Eva Pascoe, Ali Knapp, and Roger Green.

Life

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By Kyle MacNeill
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Life

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Music

Why Snoop Dogg ‘Chose No Sides’ in the Kendrick Lamar-Drake Beef

Snoop chose not to get involved in the Kendrick Lamar-Drake, beef but does believe that Kendrick’s song “Not Like Us” united “the West.”

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By Stephen Andrew Galiher
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Life

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