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An investigation by Associated Press has found that Google continues to record its users’ locations even when they have been specifically instructed not to, in the latest bombshell privacy revelation to rock a big-name tech company. According to the report, which has been verified by researchers at Princeton
It might surprise some people to learn that Reddit has been available in China for as long as it has. But that all changed this weekend when popular discussion site went offline across the country. Reddit bills itself as ‘the front page of the internet’ and is
Twitter has been ordered to make wholesale changes to its terms and conditions after losing a privacy case in France. And because Twitter has a single global privacy policy, this could benefit users around the world. The case was bought by UFC-Que Choisir, a French consumer group.
Russian internet security firm Kaspersky have been embarrassed by revelations that their in-house VPN has been leaking details of the websites users visit. But it seems they have failed to reward the security analyst who uncovered the vulnerability. The VPN offered by Kaspersky to their users is
Anyone with even a passing interest in US politics in recent years cannot have helped but come across Infowars, the website, podcast, and TV channel run by the notorious Alex Jones. Like so much in American politics of late, Infowars has divided opinion across America, with many
Last week, we reported on the news that one of America’s biggest and most data-hungry ISPs, Verizon, was launching its own VPN service. Called Safe Wi-Fi, Verizon claims that the service is intended to keep their users safe when connecting to public Wi-Fi and other insecure connections.
The live video-streaming app Periscope is to be blocked on a regular basis in Turkey after a court ruling yesterday, which is expected to pave the way for censorship of other online platforms too. The ruling was handed down by the Istanbul Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights
