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Free VPNs exposed 20 million records, but ExpressVPN has your back
This post was originally published July 30, 2020. Seven free VPN providers that assured users they don’t keep activity logs have left their servers exposed to the public, containing, you guessed it,...
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U.S. Senate to vote on EARN IT bill, endangering encryption
The EARN IT bill, which would make tech companies liable for the behavior of its users, was unanimously approved by a U.S. Senate committee on July 2 and will be presented for a vote on the Senate flo...
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Staying private and anonymous online is in your best financial interests
We know advertisers love to track us online through avenues such as browser fingerprinting, tracking cookies, Bluetooth beacons, IP addresses, and other methods of de-anonymization. And that, in turn,...
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In a possible first, facial recognition has led to a wrongful arrest
This post was originally published on July 7, 2020. Facial recognition tech has been banned in U.S. cities like San Francisco and, most recently, Boston, on top of a concerted campaign to outlaw it on...
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The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating up
This post was originally published on July 2, 2020. Following the introduction of the EARN IT bill in the U.S. Senate in March—a bipartisan legislation that sought to impose government-mandated “b...
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Not so (artificially) intelligent: 8 times machine learning got it wrong
Billions of dollars have been poured into artificial intelligence (AI) research, with proponents of the technology arguing that computers can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems in...
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What is internet privacy and how should you protect your online privacy?
We use the internet for just about everything in our personal and private lives—and what we do online has become valuable data. Large corporations want to track our activity so they can serve us wit...
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New Android malware targets Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp
This article was originally published on June 1, 2020. A new Android zero-day exploit, targeting primarily Thai users, has been uncovered by security researchers at Talos Intelligence. Dubbed WolfRAT,...
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Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual privacy
History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow the first seeds of the surveillance state in the U.S., where citizens gradually ...
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Survey: Americans distrust contact-tracing apps but are willing to use them for the greater good
This post was originally published on May 21, 2020. Big tech got a thumbs down in ExpressVPN’s last survey about American attitudes towards privacy, and while things have changed slightly since the ...
