When someone debating privacy says, “but I don’t have anything to hide,” I am immediately suspicious. “Would you prove it by giving me access to your email accounts,” I’ve taken to replying, “along with your credit card statements and bank records?” Not a single person has ever taken me up on that challenge–until now.
Track the Trackers is a capstone project created by three Winona State University Mass Communication students. The purpose of this project is to bring into focus the nearly invisible world of third-party tracking. Our goal is to educate consumers on the potential dangers in letting this data be collected, and to share information, techniques, and software to help consumers protect themselves online.
Abine, the online privacy company, makes DoNotTrackMe to block online tracking companies and protect your personal information.
Do email platforms have the right to scan user emails if it helps to combat crime?
XRay, a new tool that reveals which data in a web account, such as emails, searches, or viewed products, are being used to target which outputs, such as ads, recommended products, or prices.
Many otherwise well-informed people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked—like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites. People also think that the NSA and its international partners are the only ones who have turned the internet into a militarized zone. But according to research I am releasing Read more
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask.
The emails sent with Tutanota are end-to-end encrypted. That means the encryption process takes place locally at the sender and the decryption process takes place locally at the recipient. While being send through the internet all data (subject, content, attachments) are end-to-end encrypted.
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of start-ups, which they say could transform social science research.
“This is a new era,” said Jeffrey T. Hancock, a Cornell University professor of communication and information science. “I liken it a little bit to when chemistry got the microscope.”
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
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