[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanIn December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in what it said ...
[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanOfficials in Spain want to ban end-to-end encryption in the European Union, according to a leaked government document obtained by WIRED. The stance emerged as part of a survey o...
Apple is launching a new ad campaign today featuring the company's emphasis on health data privacy, headlined by a humorous new commercial voiced by actress and comedian Jane Lynch.
The new campa...
Privacy-centric software maker Proton has launched a new family plan starting at $19.99 (EUR19.99) per month, giving up to six family members access to its entire application suite.The move comes as t...
The new features on Twitter keep coming, as CEO Elon Musk has announced that today the platform will release an early version of encrypted direct messages that will "grow in sophistication rapidly." T...
Earlier this week, Google updated its Authenticator app to enable the backup and syncing of 2FA codes across devices using a Google Account. Now an examination by Mysk security researchers has found t...
WhatsApp is finally rolling out multi-device login support for more than one phone.Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature's rollout on Facebook and Instagram."Starting today, you can log into the same ...
Meta's WhatsApp is threatening to leave the UK if the government passes the Online Safety Bill, saying it will essentially eliminate its encryption methods. Alongside its rival company Signal and five...
Apple's surprise January resurrection of the original HomePod arrived will a handful of new software features. One of the more intriguing of the bunch was sound recognition for smoke and carbon monoxi...
WhatsApp, Signal, and other messaging services have penned an open letter to the British government appealing for it to urgently rethink the Online Safety Bill (OSB), a piece of legislation that would...
[photo1]Paresh DaveWithin weeks of Covid-19 shutting down the world in 2020, teams at archrivals Apple and Google partnered on a rare joint project. They developed a way to log people's proximity usin...
Opera, the makers of an ad-blocking web browser, whose most recent claim to fame is having TikTok built-in, announced today it's rolling out an updated version of its iOS app that now includes its fre...
It was 1992 and the FBI had a major problem on its hands.That year, AT&T had announced the launch of something called the TSD-3600--a novel piece of privacy hardware that could encrypt voice transmis...
[photo1]Andy GreenbergThere's a reason consumer drones have evolved from an expensive toy into a tool of war: They can perform high-altitude surveillance, carry out reconnaissance, or even deploy weap...
After two months of arguing back and forth with critics about how so many aspects of its "No clouds" security cameras could be accessed online by security researchers, Anker smart home div...
Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays and planning parties and learn...