Osman

I like to think about the impact that the internet has on humanity. In my free time, I'm wolfing down pasta.

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An illustration of a crowd of people, all wearing masks, under a surveillance camera.
4 mins
Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual...
History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow...
Location symbol with a virus.
4 mins
Survey: Americans distrust contact-tracing apps but are willing to use them...
A new survey by ExpressVPN found that 75% of people believe that contact-tracing apps violate a person’s privacy.
A sinister hand emerges from a laptop screen.
4 mins
What is cybercrime? 5 types and examples of cybercrime explained
Think about large-scale heists and it’s normal to conjure an image of a group of thieves robbing a bank,...
Security camera pointing at a grocery bag.
5 mins
Contactless supermarkets are here. But at what cost?
Contactless stores and delivery options have shot into the mainstream thanks to the spread of Covid-19. What does it mean for privacy?
A key atop a background of green numbers and letters (like the Matrix).
3 mins
EARN IT Act: U.S. might permanently ban end-to-end encryption
The EARN IT bill could make tech companies liable for its users' behavior and has far-reaching consequences for privacy and encryption.
What is GDPR
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What is GDPR and how do you obtain GDPR compliance?
To understand the story of GDPR, we must rewind back to 2011, when an Austrian lawyer filed an information request to Facebook.
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6 mins
Internet censorship: What is it, and how does it happen?
The internet was initially envisioned as a medium for the free flow of information and knowledge—hence its early description...
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5 mins
Why isn’t Big Tech embraced in its own backyard?
Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s Bay Area have long been synonymous with Big Tech. It was the center of...
An illustration of a man wearing a smiley-face mask.
3 mins
Students and activists in the U.S. lead the fight against facial...
Facial recognition tech can identify us in crowds, but a new wave of privacy advocates want to outlaw the algorithms across the U.S.
A screenshot of the Google homepage with a tear drop where the extension icon should be.
3 mins
Chrome extensions found leaking millions of records
Malicious browser extensions discreetly uploaded personal user data to unknown servers, in a complex web that could be at least 3 years old.

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