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Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform, politicians and public personalities have been caught looking at salacious and unsavory tweets in the past. Now, the platform formerly known as Twitter is making likes mostly private, and according to company chief Elon Musk, it’s an important change so that people can “like posts without getting attacked for
For nearly a decade, cybersecurity professionals and privacy advocates have recommended the end-to-end encrypted communication’s app Signal as the gold standard for truly private digital communications. Using it however, has paradoxically required exposing one particular piece of private information to everyone you text or call: a phone number. Now, that’s changing, WIRED reported. Today, Signal launched the rollout in beta
WhatsApp posted on its blog “Chat Lock” Making your most intimate conversations even more private”. The purpose of this new feature appears to give users a more secure way to protect their intimate conversations behind one more layer of security. From the blog post: Our passion is to find new ways to help keep your messages private and secure. Today,
Several tech companies are asking the U.S. House of Representatives to pass legislation that would prevent the FBI from obtaining people's browser history without a warrant. The tech companies include: Mozilla, Reddit, Twitter, and Patreon. Mozilla Corporation, Engine, Reddit, Inc., Reform Government Surveillance, Twitter, i2Coalition, and Patreon sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Chairman of
There's something strange going on with the iPhone 11 Pro. Security reporter Brian Krebs noticed that the iPhone 11 Pro intermittently seeks the user's location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. On Nov. 13, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Apple to report this as a possible privacy bug in the
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
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