Osman

I like to think about the impact that the internet has on humanity. In my free time, I'm wolfing down pasta.

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A laptop wearing an eyemask with a dollar sign on it.
3 mins

Staying private and anonymous online is in your best financial interests

Retailers will offer different prices on goods and services depending on visitor browsing habits and physical location.
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2 mins

In a possible first, facial recognition has led to a wrongful...

What the arrest of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams in Michigan shows about the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.
A door on a wall of code.
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The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating...

This post was originally published on July 2, 2020. Following the introduction of the EARN IT bill in the U.S....
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Not so (artificially) intelligent: 8 times machine learning got it wrong

Billions of dollars have been poured into artificial intelligence (AI) research, with proponents of the technology arguing that computers...
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What is internet privacy and how should you protect your online...

We use the internet for just about everything in our personal and private lives—and what we do online has...
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2 mins

New Android malware targets Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp

This article was originally published on June 1, 2020. A new Android zero-day exploit, targeting primarily Thai users, has been...
An illustration of a crowd of people, all wearing masks, under a surveillance camera.
4 mins

Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual...

History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow...
Location symbol with a virus.
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Survey: Americans distrust contact-tracing apps but are willing to use them...

A new survey by ExpressVPN found that 75% of people believe that contact-tracing apps violate a person’s privacy.
A sinister hand emerges from a laptop screen.
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What is cybercrime? 5 types and examples of cybercrime explained

Think about large-scale heists and it’s normal to conjure an image of a group of thieves robbing a bank,...
Security camera pointing at a grocery bag.
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Contactless supermarkets are here. But at what cost?

Contactless stores and delivery options have shot into the mainstream thanks to the spread of Covid-19. What does it mean for privacy?

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