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How to stop the Kazakhstan government from intercepting your internet traffic
Update: The Kazakh government has halted its CA plans for now. If you previously installed the certificate, make sure it has been thoroughly removed from your system, and let us know if you encounter ...
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9 things you can do with a home server
Running your own server at home can be cheap and requires only basic knowledge of the command line. An old laptop can be converted into a server without any physical modifications, and even a modest d...
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Report: Stalkerware apps not held accountable for infringing privacy rights
Stalkerware—spyware applications installed on devices to surveil children, employees, and partners—has become the latest tool used by abusers to exert power and control over targeted individuals. ...
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The fight for online privacy is heating up in Maine
About two years ago, the United States Senate voted in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 34, essentially enabling internet service providers (ISPs) to sell personal consumer information—location hist...
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Wozniak says we should get off Facebook but why should Zuckerberg care?
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is the latest tech celebrity to urge users to purge their Facebook account, suggesting that the privacy risks are concerning and that there’s no way of effectively det...
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Staying private online could save you big bucks
By far the biggest offenders when it comes to mining your data are not governments or police, but rather advertising agencies. They will buy up your credit card history from your bank, embed trackers ...
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PwC audits ExpressVPN servers to confirm essential privacy protections
At ExpressVPN, we take your privacy and security extremely seriously. To best protect our customers, we follow a central principle of never storing any data that could compromise a user’s privacy or...
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Why should I use two-factor authentication?
You might have skipped over your email provider’s prompt: Turn on two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, is a secondary security measure for logging into an online account, wh...
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7 privacy and security takeaways in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report
This post was originally published on June 28, 2019. The biggest slide deck about the internet is back! Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report has highlighted important online observations since 1995,...
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Why you shouldn’t ignore ‘Update Your Device’ messages
It’s pretty much second nature at this point. We start our laptops and hunker down in our seats, ready to power through the day with a steaming cup of coffee. As we browse through our daily calendar...
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