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Privacy activists scored a legal victory this week after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful for law enforcement and federal agencies to access cellphone location records without a warrant. Continue reading US authorities now need warrant for your cellphone location data
The latest subject in a string of online shaming incidents was scrabbling to make amends this week as her business life fell apart and the death threats flooded in. Continue reading Woman ruined, sent death threats after #PermitPatty shaming video goes viral
A New York school district is hoping to use technology to make its children safer. But not everyone is happy about it. Continue reading School facial recognition system sparks privacy concerns
It’s exam time again, and aside from panic and caffeine-fuelled all-nighters, that can only mean one thing: A lot of people are getting their internet shut off. Continue reading Internet shut down in Algeria to stop exam cheats
Major websites took steps to protect ICE staff as tension over the US family separation policy ratcheted up. Continue reading ICE staff doxxed on Twitter, GitHub, Medium amid child separation furore
Who is archiving the web, and what happens when people ask for information to be ‘un-archived’? We may have just found out. Continue reading Wayback Machine ‘unarchives’ spying website
How much responsibility do we bear for our own media literacy, and how much effort should firms like Mozilla, Google, Snopes, Facebook and others put into tackling fake news? Continue reading Fake news: Mozilla joins the fight to stop it polluting the web
An open-source, self-hosted search aggregator might be a good way both of avoiding being tracked and getting away from the echo chamber Continue reading Self-hosted search option is a new approach to bursting the filter bubble
The blockchain isn’t just for verifying Bitcoin transactions – a number of very different ventures are using it to cut out middlemen and keep people honest Continue reading What does Imogen Heap have in common with mail? The blockchain
Nuclear submarines run on Windows XP – but is that the ships’ weakest point? Continue reading Hacking nuclear submarines – how likely is the nightmare scenario?