Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 U.S. states to settle a dispute over location tracking.
The tech giant misled its users into believing they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when Google actually continued to coll…
Alexa has seen things.
Alexa has seen everything.
With Amazon’s almost-certain impending acquisition of iRobot, consumers have been in a bit of an uproar over privacy. The idea that Amazon will have access to the layout of your home has been a bi…
You’ll soon be able to lurk and leave groups quietly on WhatsApp. Three new features have been announced for Meta’s messaging app, and they all seem to be about helping users protect their privacy.
On Tuesday, WhatsApp announced three new privacy …
Mozilla Firefox has just made changes to its browser, making an existing feature available by default to all users. The tool is called Total Cookie Protection, and thanks to it, Firefox now calls itself “the most private and secure major browser availa…
Microsoft Edge just got even more secure. After a tease a few weeks ago, Microsoft has just officially announced the availability of Edge Secure Network, the new built-in VPN feature for the Microsoft Edge browser.
Though still in an experimental stage…
Imagine you’re on a video call with your boss. You’re tired and stressed, but you’re trying to hold things together and be as professional as possible given the circumstances. Now imagine your boss knows all this because they have an app that is active…
Google will soon ban third-party call-recording apps from the Play Store. First highlighted by a developer of an affected app, Google made the announcement in a Google Play policy update that becomes effective on May 11. Once in force, developers who w…
In 2021, Google pulled the trigger on it’s grand plan to get rid of cookies — a fundamental but problematic part of the internet as we know it — and replace them with a new “privacy-first alternative” called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. In t…