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Data scraping: A (mostly) legal way to harvest your information
When you post information or images of yourself publicly online, there is always the risk that someone will record that information and use it in some way. But the practice of data scraping, in which ...
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Invasion of the home robots: Is our privacy safe?
For better or worse, humanoid robots have become a common sight over the past few years, often found working in public places like restaurants, hotels, and airports. And while home robots—and we mea...
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Explainer: Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system
Facebook has announced that in the coming weeks it will shut down its facial recognition system and delete the database of face scans it has collected over the years. Here’s why this is a big deal. ...
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6 cybersecurity horror stories to haunt your dreams
Halloween is upon us! Gather round the fire(wall) and let us regale you with six tales of cybersecurity horror for 2021… so far. Half a billion compromised Facebook profiles In April this year, it ...
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FTC study: ISPs share far more user data than you’d expect
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has just released a report with its findings on how much consumer data is collected by internet service providers and how that data is used. In case you had doubts ov...
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Internet surveillance in 5, 9, and 14 eyes countries
The Five Eyes (also known as 5 Eyes or FVEY) alliance can be traced to informal discussions between the U.S. and the UK during World War II, in which the countries agreed to share intelligence about i...
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Are we running out of IP addresses? 5 facts to know
Every device needs an IP address to communicate with others on the internet. There are 4.3 billion possible IP addresses in the IPv4 standard we use today. But with 4.66 billion active users on the in...
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7 breaches, hacks, and leaks you might have missed this year
Cybersecurity Awareness Month couldn't have kicked off in more dramatic fashion: Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram went offline, the entirety of Twitch was leaked, CoinBase got hacked, and the company...
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The internet is safer now—but a VPN is still essential protection
The internet is a much more encrypted place than it was 10 years ago—that means much improved privacy and security for all. HTTPS, once a rarity, has become so widespread that the Electronic Frontie...
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Eye in the sky: The history of the spy plane
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Yes, it's a spy plane! It was recently revealed that in 2020, an FBI aircraft surveillance program logged over 400 hours in monitoring a man in Florida, who was eventual...
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