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Are your gadgets watching you? How to give the gift of privacy

The season of holiday gift buying is upon us, and it can be hard to resist the coolest new...

Blockchain is the only viable path to privacy and censorship resistance in the 21st century

While censorship resistance and privacy are not the same thing, they are closely intertwined. When the government or...

Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Wasington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown

Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000...

When Your Neighbor Turns You In

There’s a knock at the door. Local authorities have received a tip that you’ve broken the moral code—a...

Where Did Omicron Come From? Maybe Its First Host Was Mice

It’s one of the perplexing mysteries of the Covid pandemic: Where did Omicron emerge from, almost one year ago?...

What It Means to ‘Feel Normal’ Online

Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in...

The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers

On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had filed a landmark lawsuit against data broker Kochava for...

Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe

The text message that dragged Thanasis Koukakis into what’s being called Europe’s Watergate scandal was so innocuous, he can...

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