Published on: 2025-06-10 09:00:00
Based on our years of testing and using VPNs across operating systems and browsers, these are the top factors you should consider when choosing a VPN for Chrome: Chrome compatibility If you’re looking for a VPN for Chrome, your primary consideration will be whether the VPN offers a Chrome extension. Most of the top VPN providers offer plugins for Chrome and other browsers, but some do not. Check that the VPN you’re considering offers a Chrome extension before purchasing. Alternatively, you can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 16:10:59
Within the broader smart TV and streaming box market, Apple TV 4K is a fairly niche product. It’s found nowhere near the success of most Apple offerings like the iPhone and iPad. But a new deep dive at Ars Technica explains why Apple TV 4K is the only real streaming option for privacy-conscious users. New deep dive outlines Apple’s unique privacy practices There are a lot of reasons why an Apple TV 4K can be preferable to other TV streaming options. But Scharon Harding at Ars Technica has pub
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 08:38:00
Facepalm: Microsoft's decision to make Recall an always-on screen recording feature has drawn widespread criticism. Privacy advocates urge users to shut it off, and developers are responding with tools like VeraCrypt, which now disables Recall and similar features by default. VeraCrypt has become a bit more resistant to Recall. The on-the-fly encryption tool, which emerged from the ashes of TrueCrypt, recently released version 1.26.24 with new features for all three supported operating systems
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 16:35:43
Every time I write an article about the escalating advertising and tracking on today's TVs, someone brings up Apple TV boxes. Among smart TVs, streaming sticks, and other streaming devices, Apple TVs are largely viewed as a safe haven. "Just disconnect your TV from the Internet and use an Apple TV box." That's the common guidance you'll hear from Ars readers for those seeking the joys of streaming without giving up too much privacy. Based on our research and the experts we've consulted, that a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 13:51:56
In Brief An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR. NPR says a 2012 agreement between Facebook (now Meta) and the Federal Trade Commission requires the company to conduct privacy reviews of its products, evaluating the risks of any potential updates. Until now, those reviews have been largely conducted by
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 09:11:47
Share on Social Media Analyzing Attempts to Deanonymize and Track Monero Transactions: A Technical and Strategic Overview. December 23, 2024 By: Trevor Baaddi Monero (XMR), a cryptocurrency renowned for its privacy-centric design, has drawn the attention of governments, cybersecurity experts, and analytics firms seeking to deanonymize its transactions. Unlike Bitcoin, where transactions are publicly visible on the blockchain, Monero employs sophisticated privacy features such as ring signatu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 00:11:47
Share on Social Media Analyzing Attempts to Deanonymize and Track Monero Transactions: A Technical and Strategic Overview. Monero (XMR), a cryptocurrency renowned for its privacy-centric design, has drawn the attention of governments, cybersecurity experts, and analytics firms seeking to deanonymize its transactions. Unlike Bitcoin, where transactions are publicly visible on the blockchain, Monero employs sophisticated privacy features such as ring signatures, stealth addresses, and confidenti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 00:30:00
From your email to your web browsing, it’s highly likely that your daily online life is dominated by a small number of tech giants—namely Google, Microsoft, and Apple. But since Big Tech has been cozying up to the second Trump administration, which has taken an aggressive stance on foreign policy, and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ravaged through the government, some attitudes towards using US-based digital services have been changing. While movements to s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 02:00:18
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Privacy seems to become a bigger deal every year as an increasing number of people aren’t cool with their data becoming a commodity. Proton Mail purports to offer more privacy than Gmail — unlike Google, even the Proton team can’t take a look at your inbox. As such, privacy-conscious users should want to flock to Proton Mail, right? We were interested in finding out, so we polled our readers. For Android Authority‘s Calvin Wankhede, it wasn’t that simple. He
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 08:28:18
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Privacy seems to become a bigger deal every year as an increasing number of people aren’t cool with their data becoming a commodity. Proton Mail purports to offer more privacy than Gmail — unlike Google, even the Proton team can’t take a look at your inbox. As such, privacy-conscious users should want to flock to Proton Mail, right? We were interested in finding out, so we polled our readers. For Android Authority‘s Calvin Wankhede, it wasn’t that simple. He
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 08:30:00
With President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the US government’s digital surveillance machine more powerful than ever, digital privacy should be top of mind. But the digital security world can be confusing—and there’s the larger question of why. You may think, if I’m just a regular person, why is my digital privacy important? Then there are the practical questions. What’s the best password manager? How can you keep your digital life under wraps at the border? And what kind of VPN
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 01:15:07
Treating yourself to a latte a few times a month is a simple way to indulge in a bit of hedonism. But you can be as much of a hedonist as you want—until your online privacy has holes. Luckily, NordVPN is here to patch those up for just pocket change each month. This new sale shines brightly, but the glow won’t last forever. You have a limited time to grab NordVPN on sale—and score a great freebie along the way. Speaking of limited time, here’s what the VPN provider offers before this deal runs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 20:00:00
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! Recall is shaping up to be a security and privacy nightmare – and one of the most popular messaging platforms is already trying to patch the hole. Signal's developers are now resorting to a "weird trick" involving Windows DRM to shield users from unwanted Microsoft surveillance. The desktop version of Signal now includes a new "Screen security" feature designed to block external programs – an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 10:35:00
Another day, another AI privacy issue. At Google's annual I/O developers conference, the company introduced a number of Gemini AI updates. A lot of these are coming to Search and, notably, to your online shopping experience. The new AI shopping features lets you virtually "try on" different articles of clothing by using a photo of your body and imagining what it may look like on you. I fully understand the appeal of this feature: I shop online for nearly everything I need, and it can be hard to
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Another day, another AI privacy issue. At Google's annual I/O developers conference, the company introduced a number of Gemini AI updates. A lot of these are coming to Search and, notably, to your online shopping experience. The new AI shopping features lets you virtually "try on" different articles of clothing by using a photo of your body and imagining what it may look like on you. I fully understand the appeal of this feature: I shop online for nearly everything I need, and it can be hard to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 00:47:16
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced it will acquire "substantially all" of 23andMe's assets for $256 million. The drugmaker participated in a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, a once high-flying genetic testing company that filed for for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March. Regeneron is buying 23andMe's Personal Genome Service, Total Health and Research Services business lines, according to a release. "We believe we can help 23andMe deliver and build upon its mission to help peop
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Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority I’ve recently become increasingly mindful of my online privacy and how companies use my personal data for personal gain. And in my quest to find more privacy-friendly alternatives to common online services, I decided to give the Proton suite of privacy-focused apps a go. The Swiss company’s first product was Proton Mail all the way back in 2014, so it seemed fitting to start there. Proton Mail makes some big promises, from using robust end-to-end encryption
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 04:21:32
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced Bluetooth Core Specification 6.1, bringing important improvements to the popular wireless communication protocol. One new feature highlighted in the latest release is the increased device privacy via randomized Resolvable Private Addresses (RPA) updates. "Randomizing the timing of address changes makes it much more difficult for third parties to track or correlate device activity over time," reads SIG's announcement. A Resolvable Privat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 04:00:00
With so many Android VPN apps available, it can be difficult to choose the right solution. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the most important factors to consider when choosing a VPN for Android: Privacy No matter which VPN you use on Android or any other device, the bare minimum for consideration is that it protects your privacy. Look for a VPN that uses industry-standard AES 256-bit encryption over the OpenVPN protocol, or ChaCha20 over W
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 16:30:00
Aarki has launched Encore, a next-generation machine learning platform built to deliver full-funnel growth for mobile marketers in a privacy-first landscape. Designed for smarter user acquisition and stronger retention, Encore combines dynamic targeting, continuous model evolution, and SKAN 4-ready optimization. Encore is the industry’s only unified platform with a privacy-first framework that supports both User Acquisition (UA) and Retargeting (RT) across iOS and Android – unlocking powerful
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust TL;DR: Apple customers in the United States who owned Siri-enabled devices between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024, can now claim a share of a $95 million settlement. The payout stems from a class action lawsuit alleging that Apple's Siri voice assistant recorded private conversations without user consent and sometimes shared those recordings with third-party contractors. While Apple clai
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A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company's office at St. John's Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025. Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday. Paxton sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting users' private data. The attorney general said the settlement, which covers allegations in two separ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 16:12:04
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is set to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims of data privacy violations brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a press release. Texas filed two lawsuits in 2022 against Google for “unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data,” the release says. Before now, no single state has
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A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company's office at St. John's Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025. Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday. Paxton sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting the private data of users. The attorney general said the settlement, which covers allegations in two
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 07:00:00
We count on antivirus software to keep our devices and personal data safe from cyber threats. But some of that software may be collecting data about you while it protects you. That’s the concern raised in a 2023 report by AV-Comparatives, an independent testing lab that evaluated how 20 of the most popular antivirus programs handle user data. The study looked at what data these products collect, how much control users have over it, and whether that data is shared with third parties. It also con
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 16:54:19
A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. The verdict, reached Tuesday, comes as a major victory not just for Meta-owned WhatsApp but also for privacy- and security-rights advocates who have long criticized the practices of NSO and other exploit sellers. The jury also awarded WhatsApp $444 million in compensatory damages. Clickl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 16:26:14
A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. The verdict, reached Tuesday, comes as a major victory not just for Meta-owned WhatsApp but also for privacy- and security-rights advocates who have long criticized the practices of NSO and other exploit sellers. The jury also awarded WhatsApp $444 million in compensatory damages. Clickl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 20:40:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Privacy Hero 2, a $199 router available on FlashRouters, supports NordVPN and Surfshark alongside various VPN protocols. It comes with one year of access to Privacy Hero Wireguard VPN and, with a current promotion, one year of NordVPN. The company should improve the build quality and be more generous with the Ethernet cable's length. View now at Flashrouters Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are excellent tools for improving online privacy and security. Most people sig
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