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How to wipe your iPhone or Android before selling it
Purchasing a secondhand or refurbished smartphone is a great way to save money. In fact, sales for used phones have increased steadily over the past few years with numbers projected to grow to over 35...
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How to opt out of Amazon Sidewalk and stop sharing internet with neighbors
If you have Echo smart speakers or a Ring smart doorbell in the U.S., Amazon will soon connect your devices to its new mesh network, Amazon Sidewalk, by default. On June 8, Amazon will automatically e...
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How reputation management can help you stay private
Whether we realise it or not, we’ve continually left breadcrumbs of our personal lives across our social media accounts that have most likely been scraped, collected, and collated—all with the exp...
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Frightening reality: You can buy ransomware as a service
In April, a crippling ransomware attack hit U.S. oil producer Colonial Pipeline, paralyzing operations and forcing a shutdown of its 5,500-mile-long pipeline, which accounts for nearly 50% of all the ...
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When catfish meets crypto scam on dating apps
With the emergence of social media came the catfishers—scammers who create a fake persona, complete with attractive photos, to form relationships with strangers predicated on lies. With the emergenc...
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Cypherpunks: Pioneers of online privacy
Concepts like encryption, digital currencies, and other privacy tools are accepted as a mainstream part of the internet today, but it’s taken an offbeat movement for these technologies to get to whe...
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Your old phone number is putting you at risk
If you’ve ever switched to a new phone number, chances are your old number will be reassigned to someone else. This practice of recycling phone numbers is standard, but it poses a significant privac...
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How Google Nest Hub sleep sensors monitor from afar
At first look, the recently launched second-generation Google Nest Hub is similar to other smart home devices on the market. It’s preloaded with Google Assistant and sports a seven-inch screen that ...
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Taking an exam? First, install surveillance software
As Covid-19 spread and schools across North America and Europe were forced to pivot to remote instruction and examination methods, a key concern remained unanswered. How would administrators ensure ac...
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Can we govern Big Tech on a global scale?
We frequently hear about regulatory shifts for Big Tech in the U.S. and the EU, and what that might mean for some of the world’s biggest companies and individual privacy. But recently, a small group...
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