Privacy & Security
The new tool, Bard, arrives six long weeks after Microsoft’s BingGPT release.
Phone numbers were never meant to protect or identify us, but we use them to do that all the time. We shouldn’t.
The latest salvo in reining in tech platforms: Laws to protect children from them.
More like BadRx.
Apple’s privacy-friendly ad business is also an antitrust avoidance strategy.
How to encrypt most of your iCloud data — and why you should.
A brief guide to the weird and revolutionary world of quantum computers.
Save time and preserve your privacy.
It’s time to turn off those secret email read receipts.
The Roe reversal showed the need for data privacy laws. Will that be enough to get them?
Like it or not, Amazon can give Ring footage to cops without your permission — or even a warrant.
How police can find out where you’ve been, and what you can do about it.
The pre-Roe world didn’t have data privacy laws. The post-Roe world needs them.
There doesn’t seem to be a corner of the internet Meta isn’t tracking.
Installing advanced security tech doesn’t appear to stop these tragedies, but it can harm students in other ways.
As the 911 system adapts to the age of cellphones, it’s gaining access to all kinds of new data, too.
Apple’s big privacy update came out a year ago. What did it do for you?
The case for treating internet access as a health necessity.
When lawmakers focus on children’s online safety to get bills passed, they leave everyone else out. Now they’re trying again.
Your bitcoin can live on, even if you don’t.
A hack targeting US officials is just the latest problem for NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware.
Walgreens added a new security measure to its test registration platform after a Recode report.
The privacy-first company’s invasive approach isn’t going over well with many.
You probably don’t know what HIPAA really means. Let’s fix that.
As the commercial space industry heats up, security experts worry about cyberattacks.
Your location data is for sale, and it can be used against you.
The Pegasus spyware leak shows that iPhones are vulnerable to hacks, too.
Biden and Putin had a long talk about cyberattacks in Wednesday’s meeting.
The ransomware threat isn’t going away.
Countless websites, including major news outlets, were offline after an outage at Fastly, a cloud computing provider.
If you’re using texts for two-factor authentication, it’s time to change to an app. Here’s what you need to know.
What is a vaccine passport? Can I get one?
App Tracking Transparency is here, but many apps aren’t offering it yet.
How your employer (and others) can get your Slack messages.
How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
The Biden administration says it’s leaving digital vaccination records up to states and the private sector.
The popular app fixed one of its privacy flaws, but not all of them.
T-Mobile’s new personalized ad program is invasive — and common.
Rep. Suzan DelBene is the first of several lawmakers to introduce necessary privacy legislation this year.
They’re not perfect, but App Store users still get something out of them.