New semester, new surveillance: How schools plan to monitor students
Amid a pandemic, schools that decide to reopen might implement various invasive methods of monitoring students.
Three things we learned from the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance
Wonder what sort of surveillance your city has? There’s a map for that.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched...
The U.S. wants to stop funding open-source projects. Here’s why that’s...
You may not have heard of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), but you’ve probably used tools that have gotten...
What happens to your privacy if you go completely cashless?
Swiping a card or using your phone to pay for things is undoubtedly convenient but comes with obvious privacy...
How to secure your video-conferencing apps
This post was originally published on May 14, 2020.
If you are working from home right now, chances are you...
What is Off-Facebook activity, and what does it reveal about your...
Facebook harvests a lot of your data, even when you’re not actually using it. Now, finally, Facebook is letting...
Google and Apple are co-creating a contact-tracing tool. Can you trust...
In what can only be described as the most unlikely of partnerships, Apple and Google have teamed up to...
Maybe it’s time to dump social media, just for a little...
For a lot of us these days, the internet has become our sole tether to the outside world, connecting...
How to spot Covid-19 phishing and ransomware attacks
NOTE: This post was originally published on April 7, 2020
Spring is normally the time when tax-related phishing scams spike,...
How to boost Wi-Fi at home for faster internet
It will not surprise anyone that internet usage has surged dramatically in the past few weeks, thanks to people...
