A form of individual tracking specific to your web browser is at the heart of a currently contested privacy battle, and…
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Firefox stops advertisers tracking you as you browse, calls itself the most “private and secure major browser”
Cookies are in the news as Mozilla rolls out significant privacy changesfor Firefox. The idea is to dramatically lessen the risk…
Parental controls—what they can and can’t do for you
Parental controls can be useful to limit the risks your children run into online, but you should know up front that…
AirTag stalking: What is it, and how can I avoid it?
More voices are being raised against the use of everyday technology repurposed to attack and stalk people. Most recently, it’s reported…
Google, geofence warrants, and you
Another day, another example of how the data sharing choices we make can come back to haunt us. The Guardian reports…
Thief pulls off colossal, $600m crypto-robbery …and gives the money back
The largest crypto-robbery in history is rapidly turning into the most bizarre as well. Let’s start at the beginning… In an…
What is Incognito mode? Our private browsing 101
Incognito mode is the name of Google Chrome’s private browsing mode, but it’s also become the catch-all term used to describe…
Will Google’s Privacy Sandbox take the bite out of tracking cookies?
Third-party cookies have been the lynchpin of online advertising for many years. Plans to phase cookies out forever continue to run…
Charities and the advertising industry: data ecosystems and privacy risks
Data makes the world go round, more often than not via advertising and its tracking mechanisms. Whether you think making money…
End of line: supporting IoT in the home
Trouble is potentially brewing in Internet of Things (IoT) land, even if the consequences may still be a little way off….