Privacy news
When you use the internet at home, connected to everything from fitness
equipment to game consoles, smartphones, and laptops, marketing companies could
be watching you with a tiny piece of surveillance tech you might not even know
about.
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The email addresses and other sensitive information of 918 British MPs, members
of the European Parliament, and French deputies and senators have been leaked to
dark web marketplaces where data is illegally bought and sold. As part of our
investigati
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has become notorious as
the legal justification allowing federal agencies like the NSA, CIA, and FBI to
perform warrantless wiretaps, which sweep up the data of hundreds of thousands
of US citi
A cyberattack on national public employment service France Travail has exposed
the personal data of as many as 43 million people.
The latest breach is the second major cybersecurity attack to happen in France
in the past month, raising concerns abo
The biggest new threat to privacy in 2023 wasn’t any surveillance program. It
was the false advertising Big Tech companies use to trick people into thinking
their products are private.
Like oil companies claiming fossil fuels are “green”, Google, Ap
Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)
received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the
Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned
enough revenue to
With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows, it appears the company
has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising.
Everyone talks about the privacy-washing campaigns of Google and Apple as they
mine your
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Google has made sure that 2023 will go down as the year of privacy washing. It
introduced a new “ad privacy feature” for Chrome in September, and now it’s
broadened the release of the beta version of Ad Topics for Android (both part of
its misleading
Even though the Snowden leaks came out 10 years ago, the United States never
ended its unconstitutional surveillance program. It now has a chance to close
the legal loopholes that allow warrantless spying on US citizens. But Congress
needs to act bef
Over the past year, hackers have been using new and clever techniques to steal
people’s online data. At Proton, we’ve been monitoring these evolving strategies
and updating our defenses to stay ahead of the arms race.
Often, the attacks involve new
On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the
UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful
media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation
from the t