Category Archives: privacy

Facebook and Twitter admit that marketers accessed the phone numbers people gave them for security verification. Here’s how to protect yourself without handing over your digits. (Fast Company)

Despite Facebook’s annoyances and privacy violations, abandoning the largest community in human history may have more downsides than benefits. (Fast Company)

Quitting Facebook is hard. But using it without handing over too much data is easier than you think. (Fast Company)

Immigrant and privacy activists are detailing the involvement of big tech–especially Amazon–with the military, ICE, and local law enforcement. (Fast Company)

Web companies and browser makers are rolling out encryption that can obscure the identity of many–though not yet all–of the websites you visit. (Read more on Fast Company.)

The law–which applies to companies well beyond the tech sector–is groundbreaking but also laden with confusing language that frustrates both critics and backers. (Learn more at Fast Company.)

The browser maker will combine a password manager with a database of breached sites and emails to automatically alert you if you’ve been compromised. (Read more at Fast Company.)