Internet
Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to pull the wool over our eyes. This deception is intended to prevent full disclosure to consumers, thus preventing informed ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Although a private browsing mode known as "Incognito" in Google's widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new attention on this commonly available ...
Apr 2, 2024
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Internet
Recent legislation about age verification for adult content sites has sparked an interesting scenario in the Canadian parliament. On Dec. 13, Bill S-210, An Act to restrict young persons' online access to sexually explicit ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Internet
Amazon-owned Twitch said Wednesday it's expanding the ban on livestreams of gambling content on the platform.
Aug 2, 2023
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Internet privacy company Proton announced Wednesday a new VPN Observatory, tracking demand for its services to detect attacks on free speech in countries like Russia and Iran before they hit the headlines.
Jul 26, 2023
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Business
In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite—including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps—and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed ...
Jun 18, 2023
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Internet
"Splinternet" refers to the way the internet is being splintered—broken up, divided, separated, locked down, boxed up, or otherwise segmented.
Jun 9, 2023
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Security
A scammer in China used AI to pose as a businessman's trusted friend and convince him to hand over millions of yuan, authorities have said.
May 24, 2023
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Internet
Montana has made an unprecedented move to become the first US state to ban TikTok.
May 22, 2023
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Business
TikTok is not be the first app to be scrutinized over the potential exposure of U.S. user data, but it is the first widely used app that the U.S. government has proposed banning over privacy and security concerns.
Apr 12, 2023
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