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Big changes to data protection laws in the EU and Brazil
If you’re one of the 656 million people who live in the EU or Brazil, then a series of recent developments might impact the way companies like Facebook and Google handle your data. The first, a ruli...
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New semester, new surveillance: How schools plan to monitor students
This post was originally published on July 28, 2020. It is somehow almost September, which normally signals the start of another school year for many children and university students. While Covid-19 h...
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Infographic: How your phone gives up your privacy
Want more tips on staying private and secure on your mobile devices? Read our comprehensive mobile security guide.
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ExpressVPN launches a bug-bounty program hosted by Bugcrowd
Note: As of July 1, 2025, we’ve transitioned from Bugcrowd to YesWeHack. At ExpressVPN, nothing is more important than our users’ privacy, which we ensure through our policies and the security of...
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U.S. Senate to vote on EARN IT bill, endangering encryption
The EARN IT bill, which would make tech companies liable for the behavior of its users, was unanimously approved by a U.S. Senate committee on July 2 and will be presented for a vote on the Senate flo...
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Here's how bug bounties improve security
Software could be the most complex tool created by humans. While it might still be possible for a single individual to understand all the functioning parts of a car or telephone, it’s unlikely any o...
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Three things we learned from the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance
Wonder what sort of surveillance your city has? There’s a map for that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched the “largest-ever” searchable database of police use of surveillance...
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The U.S. wants to stop funding open-source projects. Here’s why that’s bad.
You may not have heard of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), but you’ve probably used tools that have gotten its financial support—Tor, Tails, and Signal have all been beneficiaries of the OTF. In To...
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Staying private and anonymous online is in your best financial interests
We know advertisers love to track us online through avenues such as browser fingerprinting, tracking cookies, Bluetooth beacons, IP addresses, and other methods of de-anonymization. And that, in turn,...
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In a possible first, facial recognition has led to a wrongful arrest
This post was originally published on July 7, 2020. Facial recognition tech has been banned in U.S. cities like San Francisco and, most recently, Boston, on top of a concerted campaign to outlaw it on...
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