by crissly | Sep 30, 2021 | Business, Business / National Affairs, Security, Security / Privacy
Toward the end of Thursday’s hearing on Facebook and teen mental health, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) alluded to the Chinese government’s recent decision to impose strict limits on kids’ video game time. “They have told teenagers to take a real break,” he said,...
by crissly | Sep 8, 2021 | Security, Security / Privacy
This weekend, news broke that the anonymous email service ProtonMail turned over a French climate activist’s IP address and browser fingerprint to Swiss authorities. The move seemed to contradict the company’s own privacy-focused policies, which as recently as...
by crissly | Aug 10, 2021 | Security, Security / Privacy
In North America and many other parts of the world, high-speed 5G mobile data networks dangled just out of reach for years. But as 5G coverage becomes ubiquitous, the rollout comes with an important caveat. Even if your phone says it’s connected to the...
by crissly | Jul 21, 2021 | Security, Security / Privacy
“Venmo’s finally getting the message that maximum publicity on a financial app is a terrible idea,” says Kaili Lambe, senior campaigner at the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit focused on internet openness and accessibility. “However, from the beginning we have been...
by crissly | Jul 5, 2021 | Security, Security / Privacy
Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so that, as the corporate behemoth says, users can “remove any … personal content from the applicable device(s)” before selling or discarding them....
by crissly | Jun 22, 2021 | Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security Advice
Jeff Bezos has a hidden weapon: your data. While Amazon’s retail empire is built on a complex web of infrastructure and murky working practices, its selling success is based on an intricate knowledge of what millions of people buy and browse every day. WIRED UK This...
