The Trump administration likely will seek public comment on a new online privacy proposal it is hammering out with tech companies before sending it to Congress, administration officials […]
Verizon VPN app protects against shady public WiFi
Add Verizon to the list of tech giants that can’t resist the temptation to offer their own virtual private network services. The carrier (and Engadget’s parent company) has released a Safe Wi-Fi app for Android that uses the encryption of a VP…
Worried About GMail Privacy? Look In The Mirror
How to keep your Gmails private and away from prying eyes. What we have here is a failure to learn. If you are worried about the recent scare stories about third party developers looking at GMail and using the metrics…
Verizon’s new ‘Safe Wi-Fi’ is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month
Verizon has rolled out a new product called Safe Wi-Fi, a VPN that provides a security stop gap for its mobile customers logging onto a public network. It’s also being marketed as a way to block ads. So WTF is a VPN and why does it matter? A VPN is a virtual private network. It sits between a […]
Facebook lost one million monthly active users to GDPR
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation had a tangible impact on Facebook’s user base — if only just. While discussing its second quarter earnings, the social network revealed that it lost about 1 million monthly active users …
Despite scandals, Facebook is still raking in cash and users
It’s no secret that 2018 has been quite a rocky year for Facebook, after controversies over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal and, most recently, its handling of fake news on the platform. But, despite these troubling issues, the co…
Updated GDPR Privacy Agreement
The Law Offices of Reed Yurchak updated its privacy agreement with the launch of its new site. Check it out.
