Brave is an internet browser that aims to provide users with privacy-protected browsing while at the same time serving them with advertisements. Their approach is interesting and worth a look.
Who needs a data breach when you can wilfully give the data away? The Kerala Election Commission (EC) is doxxing, i.e. exposing the personal information of millions of voters, on publicly-accessible websites with no security whatsoever. I explore this serious breach of privacy and make a call for action.
Google is doing away with third-party cookies that track individuals’ browsing habits. This is a positive development that should generally improve user privacy across the internet. Let’s look at it.
This is a paraphrasing of an actual question that I got a few weeks ago. Online privacy is a challenging subject for practitioners. On the one hand most people are…
I have observed some confusion as to how WhatsApp secures user information when peoples’ phone numbers change or are recycled by phone service providers. Someone I knew (Alice) started using…
Glenn Greenwald is the reporter who, along with Laura Poitras, broke Edward Snowden’s leaks about the NSA’s mass-surveillance program in 2013. In “No place to hide” Greenwald tells the story…
You may have heard recently that Whatsapp’s privacy policy has changed ‘for the worse’ and that it is now sharing user account information with Facebook. What’s that all about and…
It’s history time! While we are discussing Apple vs FBI and the ongoing legal battles over encryption, let’s consider how American politics have already prevented technology from being as good…
We send a lot of communication over messaging services that send a few characters of text per message. Have you ever considered how easy (or difficult) it would be for…
You are concerned about how the use of online social media is eroding your privacy. What measures can you take? Here are a few possibilities. You can choose more than…