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When people started buzzing about Careless People, I admit that I found myself thinking "who cares? Meta is a morally rotten company run by greedy, out-of-touch sleezeballs? This isn't news." But as more and more people talked about it and I began to hear it discussed
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Privacy isn’t just about data. It’s about control. We often use security as a means to enforce privacy - for example, encryption forces providers to respect our wishes rather than simply pinky-promising they won't do anything untoward. And threat modeling requires us to ask ourselves to
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On a recent episode of This Week In Privacy, one of the Q&A questions asked "With it being Thanksgiving week in the US, what is one development in the privacy world that you are grateful for this year?" Currently, we lose more than we win in
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Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell released a video in which she shared the struggles one of her community members experienced trying to buy a new guitar online. The longer the video went on, the more I found myself saying things like "well obviously that caused problems" and "why would
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Black Friday is quickly bearing down upon us. For those not in the know, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the US, and traditionally marks the official start of Christmas shopping season, and as such, many vendors, retailers, and manufacturers offer steep discounts on their products and services.
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For many, this month is when gift-giving season officially begins in the United States thanks to Black Friday, which is quickly consuming most of November in many cases. As a result, even though online shopping is something most of us engage in year-round, now is a particularly important time to
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Amazon’s now-legendary “Prime Day” is July 8-11. Much like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, this means sales on lots of items on Amazon’s vast marketplace, and as such many people flock to the giant’s website to get sweet deals on everything from computers to small kitchen appliances
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Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it
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Society loves our dystopian fiction. Black Mirror, The Handmaid's Tale, Severance, and those are just a few of the most acclaimed ones set in the near future. But these days, watching these shows feels more and more like watching a documentary on current events. I'm not
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As I've written about before, privacy is a complex and ever-evolving topic. It's easy to get caught up in the idea that there's always more we can do to protect ourselves online. But what happens when one day you crest the last hill and