#Privacy

Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser. Preventing access to quite few websites (previously, but it even went worse lately).…

Security researchers uncover how a widely-used AI integration leaks sensitive spreadsheet contents to external servers.

If you opened Chrome recently and found uBlock Origin disabled or flagged as unsupported, you're not...

A bipartisan amendment that would have barred most police use of automated license plate readers by tying the restriction to federal highway funds died without debate in a House committee.…

Google's AI-heavy redesign buries traditional links and frustrates users with summaries that sometimes mislead. Publishers lose traffic. Search quality slips.…

Learn how to access Android's Privacy Dashboard to see exactly which apps are accessing your location, camera, microphone, and more.

I recently ran into a painful SEO issue on a localized SaaS site. Ahrefs showed hundreds of “missing...

We recently updated our privacy policy for the first time since 2022. Most of the changes are clarifications, reorganizations, and improvements in transparency, particularly around how third-party tools that run parts of our site operate.…

Corporations bear responsibility for violating user trust and human rights, and EFF is holding them accountable with your support. We’ve seen collective action rein in companies and bring them back on track to protect users.…

In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for everyone. This scenario is already playing out globally. Help us stop it and keep the web open and accessible for all.

Amnesty International supports a class action lawsuit filed today by The Privacy Collective on behalf of Dutch internet users against the American tech company AppLovin.

There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected…

I'm one of those people who enjoy on planes and in public spaces in general. But the issue of privacy was always a hurdle.

Why sending business data to cloud AI services creates compliance risks, and how local AI analytics solves the problem.

privacy webdevEvery time I uploaded a file to an online PDF tool, I wondered: what happens to it...

Unprotected DNS requests mean someone could easily spy on you. Changing your DNS is almost as easy as doing nothing, so why wait?

Most Chrome extensions that hit external APIs route your requests through the developer's backend....

From blocking advertiser tracking to protecting AI-processed data, Apple has built privacy features that remain unique in the consumer tech industry.

There's a pattern worth knowing about: fully client-side processing tools. No upload, no server, no...

From Dev.to - webdev: Stop Storing Important Documents in Google Photos: A Privacy-First Alternative Using Browser-Based PDF Tools