Privacy
MembersTor vs. VPN: Choosing the Right Tool for Online Privacy, Anonymity, and Security
Confusing privacy with anonymity is the first mistake most people make — and usually the most expensive one.
Mozilla Eyes Revival with Thunderbird Pro and Thundermail Amid Ongoing User Decline
Mozilla expands Thunderbird with Pro services and Thundermail to challenge Gmail and Office365 in open-source email.
T-Mobile Glitch Exposes Real-Time Location Data of Children and Vehicles to Random Users
Parents opening T-Mobile’s tracking app found themselves watching strangers’ kids instead of their own.
UK Halts “Legal but Harmful” Censorship Rule Amid US Trade Pressure, But Online Safety Act Still Fuels Free Speech and Privacy Fears
Avoiding a showdown over speech, Westminster trades censorship debates for quiet diplomacy with Washington.
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy, Framing Mass Surveillance as “Lawful Access”
The EU’s ProtectEU strategy quietly sketches the blueprint for a backdoor.
The Company That Wants All Your Data Can’t Protect Its Own
Oracle faces scrutiny after data breaches hit Oracle Cloud and Oracle Health, undermining Larry Ellison’s AI surveillance ambitions.
MembersSay Cheese to the Surveillance Engine
From Spirited Away to Stored Forever: What feels like a nostalgic fantasy is a frictionless gateway into biometric data mining.
Google Enters the Age Check Arena as Australia Flirts with Digital ID
What begins as a safety measure could quietly script the end of anonymity online.
EU Plans €1.3B Digital ID Wallet Despite Privacy Concerns
A unified digital ID may promise convenience, but it quietly rewrites the rules of anonymity in Europe.
Brazil’s Digital ID Dream Just Had a Nightmare
FacePass’s silence speaks louder than the 1.6 million faces left exposed.
Transport Canada Scrambled to Manage Fallout Over WEF-Backed Digital ID Program as Journalist Probed Privacy Concerns
Officials scrambled to sanitize internal dissent as biometric questions threatened to expose deeper entanglements with the World Economic Forum.
MembersHow to Fix the Signal Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making
The riskiest part of Signal isn’t the tech — it’s how you use it.