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Facebook’s mobile app now supports Tor

A little more than a year ago, Facebook made the rather surprising decision to allow users to access its website directly...
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Tim Cook slammed the White House for failing to support encryption

Tim Cook has already made his stance on encryption abundantly clear, but he decided to give the White House something of a reminder...
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Most Americans support warrantless surveillance on the Internet

It looks like all of the terrorist attacks that have been occurring over the past several months have stifled some of the outrage...
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The Tor Project is about to launch its own bug bounty program

For the average Internet users, Tor is easily the most-effective tool for maintaining anonymity and bypassing government censorship, and this is...
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China will soon require companies to let it bypass their encryption

Despite the numerous protests of Western technology companies, and even a warning from President Obama himself, China’s legislature voted unanimously to pass the...
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This new Tor alternative hides your messages in a stream of spam

Tor is currently the most-important tool for online anonymity in the world, due in large part to the fact that it...
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Google has been accused of tracking students without permission

Last year, Google pledged to never exploit the personal information of students for non-educational purposes, which was meant to assuage concerns...
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BlackBerry is exiting Pakistan rather than give up user data

In response to the demands from Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority that it grant the government access to backdoors in its encrypted services, BlackBerry...
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Connected cars collect an unsettling amount of data on drivers

A German motorists organization recently conducted a study on connected cars and how much driver data they gather, and the findings are a...
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Tor wants to replace government donations with crowdfunding

Considering how the United States government’s feelings towards encryption and online anonymity have been like over the past couple of years,...
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Hilary Clinton wants Silicon Valley to help combat terrorism

Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but...
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Microsoft wants to protect European users from American spying

The thought of your own government spying on you is enraging enough, but for a foreign government to be doing it,...
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The FCC refuses to force websites to honor Do Not Track requests

Do Not Track requests are basically a way for you to politely ask websites not to track your online activity, and...
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Snapchat’s disturbing terms of service update has people up in arms

Snapchat owes its rapid ascension to the top of the social app pyramid to its disappearing messages, but the service has been...
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The Tor Project has started beta testing its secure messaging app

Tor has been described by the NSA as the undisputed king of online anonymity, and it’s an essential tool for Internet users who...
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Not even Apple can break into your iOS device without your passcode

While Apple has admitted that it could technically help law enforcement break into older iOS devices, any of the devices running...
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