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Opt out of a face scan at the airport? Easier said than done.
This post was originally published on September 27, 2019. Air travel is stressful—from finding the best flight prices to lining up for what feels like hours to get through airport security before fi...
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3 things activists can do to strengthen their privacy and security
This article was originally published on September 6, 2019. Plummeting press freedoms, stifled internet access, attempts to subvert encryption, and plenty of other indicators point to a budding realit...
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Interview: Meet the person protecting human rights activists amid mass surveillance
Front Line Defenders’s Mohammed Al-Maskati has spent most of his life fighting for human rights in Bahrain and the Middle East. But in recent years, human rights activists have increasingly faced th...
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You should be compartmentalizing your browsers. Here’s how it works.
We’re acutely aware that our data is valuable—our online movements are followed assiduously by companies and governments who wish to target us for their financial and political gain. Incognito mod...
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Anonymized demographic data can still be used to identify you
If you’re one of the few people who read terms of service, you may find buried in various companies’ privacy policies a clause saying that they may collect and sell your data to third parties. The...
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Report: Stalkerware apps not held accountable for infringing privacy rights
Stalkerware—spyware applications installed on devices to surveil children, employees, and partners—has become the latest tool used by abusers to exert power and control over targeted individuals. ...
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The fight for your face: The battles deciding the fate of facial recognition
This post was originally published on May 29, 2019. Last week, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to ban government agencies from using facial recognition technology. With the increasingl...
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Worried your devices will get confiscated at the border? Here’s what you can do
There is growing evidence to suggest that border security agents are taking greater steps to intrude into our daily lives. Just last year, customs agents in the U.S. conducted over 33,000 warrantless ...
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This congressman wants to turn Taiwan into a blockchain island. We asked him how.
It’s been over ten years since the birth of Bitcoin, and while many cryptocurrencies have come and gone, the technology under it all, blockchain, has proved resilient to the fads and failed ICOs. On...
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Privacy Q&A: EFF wants 9 tech giants to #FixItAlready
This article was originally published on March 22, 2019. Perhaps the worst aspect of the privacy and security issues plaguing the tech we use every day is that they seem completely preventable. Why h...
