You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In The Golden State Killer, who terrorized Californians from Sacramento to Orange County over the course of a decade, committed his last known murder in 1986, the same year that DNA profiling was used in a...
Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords A Web standards milestone announced Tuesday could point to the end of the road for pesky passwords. The new standard, WebAuthn, has won near-final approval from the World Wide Web Consortium, which...
Cloudflare’s DNS privacy tool would skirt ISPs, speed up your internet These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure. The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to...
“Who cares, I have nothing to hide” — Why the popular response to online privacy is so flawed On March 17, whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that software company Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from 50 million Facebook users to serve advertisements for...
Study: Millennials actually more gullible than their grandparents Bet you didn’t see this one coming. When you think of the various online scams, fraud, identity theft and extortion plots which frequently seek to part people from their money via email or social media...
