Privacy Is About Trust, Don't Break It For Little-to-No Reason
Peloton spins up the marketing machine to sell exposing user profile information with minimal warning. Why? How could they have done better?
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Is Digital Privacy Important?
Digital privacy is critical in our communities. Why don't we have it?
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Risk Analysis (And Essays) Shouldn’t End in “Um”
"Um" is not a great call to action, but sometimes it's all you've got.
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How Can You Figure out How Likely an App Is to Have Security Problems?
Can you—as a user—understand an app or service's security posture? If so, how?
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How The App Privacy Card in the Apple App Store Matters To You
What steps should we take to evaluate the privacy impact of a mobile app?
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Do You Care About Data Privacy? Does Anyone?
Data Privacy Day is January 28th, can we raise awareness about the issues around data privacy effectively? Will you take action?
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Does Your Utility Control Your Smart House?
When your local electric utility offered a new smart thermostat a heavy discount, a lot of homeowners jumped at the chance. Unfortunately, a clause in the terms of the promotion grants the utility access to your data and the ability to remotely control the device!
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Privacy at WWDC21
Apples annual developer conference announced the latest version of all of Apples operating sytems and privacy was a key pillar across all of them.
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Apple vs. Facebook Battling For Your Privacy
Apple and Facebook have been battling very publicly around privacy issues. What's really going on?
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Google Gathers FLoC of Privacy Bull
Google continues to advocate for a "privacy-first" web. The problem? Their definition of privacy and how it seems to be a Google-powered adtech nightmare.
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No Privacy With Google Chrome on iOS
Google has had to disclose the amount of tracking its apps do in iOS. Shocking no one: it turns out it's a lot.
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Clubhouse's Entirely Predictable Privacy and Moderation Issues
Clubhouse is the hot new social network. It's a promising audio-only network that now boasts over 2 millions active weekly users. During this rise, it's committed some easily avoidable and obvious mistakes around privacy and content moderation. Can they recover?