Privacy Badger isn’t just for individuals. Libraries and schools can install Privacy Badger organization-wide to make private and secure browsing the default on their computers.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger
​​In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools,...
If you want to enable WhatsApp’s “Advanced Chat Privacy” in group chats, you might also want to lock down the permissions of that chat first.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
What WhatsApp’s “Advanced Chat Privacy” Really Does
In April, WhatsApp launched its “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature, which, once enabled, disables using certain AI features in chats and prevents ...
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model.
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach ...
Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why.
Why Communication Metadata Matters
As its name suggests, metadata is data about data. Metadata is used in a variety of contexts, often for cataloging information, like tagging keywor...
While digital ID gets pushed as the solution to the problem of uploading IDs to each site users access, the security and privacy on them varies based on implementation. But when privacy is involved, regulators must make room for negotiation.
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Verifying Trust in Digital ID Is Still Incomplete
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out different digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging...