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Superhuman describes itself as “the fastest email experience ever made”. That may sound great to people who send and receive a lot of email. Unfortunately, Superhuman was also doing some very creepy, and potentially dangerous, things. After some very detailed criticism of Superhuman by Mike Davidson, (on his personal blog), the Founder and CEO of Superhuman, Rahul Vorhra, decided to
As reported by Recode, and with a small dose of "Told you so", Facebook has clarified that it will spy on you using its new Portal devices after all. In an email sent to Recode, Facebook said, "Portal voice calling is built on the Messenger infrastructure, so when you make a video call on Portal, we collect the same types
35 Years from today you, your spouse, your son or daughter may be involved in an investigation where an entity needs to know where you were at this exact time 35 years ago. For most of us to answer that would be nearly impossible to answer. But Apple, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Fitbit and any other app or device that
DuckDuckGo announced that they have fully revamped versions of their browser extension and mobile app. Their new app and browser extension will block advertising tracker networks, increase encryption protection, and help you search privately – no matter what platform you are on. Today, we're taking a major step to simplify online privacy with the launch of fully revamped network blocking,
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted rules that require broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to protect the privacy of their customers. The rules ensure that broadband customers have meaningful choice, greater transparency, and strong security protections for their personal information collected by ISPs. This landmark ruling, which was passed by a 3-2 party line vote by the FCC's five
WhatsApp updated its terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years. Some of those changes are likely to turn off users. In short, WhatsApp wants to share user data with Facebook for the purpose of using it to show you targeted ads. There is a way to opt-out of it. WhatsApp posted an oddly worded blog post
The past few weeks have seen most of the tech industry line up against law enforcement and intelligence agencies over the matter of encryption and privacy. I particularly liked Google's recent conversion to privacy as it wasn't that long ago that Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, said that, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't