How Wi-Fi Can Track You Around the World
When online, we leak more information than we mean to, often thanks to Wi-Fi. In fact, it can even be used to track you wherever you are around the world.
How the UK's Snooper's Charter Could Affect the Whole World
The Investigatory Powers Bill, better known as the "Snooper's Charter", is here. You might think it only affects the UK, but you'd be wrong. This affects everyone, across the whole world.
Yahoo Has Been Spying on Your Emails for the NSA
If you have a Yahoo Mail account, Yahoo has been scanning all of your emails to help U.S. intelligence agencies. Which is nice of them.
How to Find Out If Google Has Been Listening to You
Here's something that might unsettle you: Google can hear everything you do, and most of it may be getting recorded. Here's how to clear and disable all of that.
How Private Investigators Use the Internet to Track You
Digital private investigators know everything about you -- the color of your car, who you voted for, your favorite films... everything. But where do they find this information, and who is profiting from it?
Is Your Browser Leaking Your Online Secrets?
Is your browser leaking your online secrets? Could it be letting your train spotting obsession out of the bag, without even an inkling of remorse? And if it is, how on earth would you know?
Practical Uses for Your Home Surveillance Cameras
Home surveillance cameras are getting more popular with each passing year as technology improves and prices drop. Here are some practical uses for home security cameras, some which may surprise you.
Decorate Your Home With These 7 Stylish Security Cameras
First-generation home security cameras had many flaws, including connection issues and poor video quality. They were also rather dull looking. Here are 7 stylish alternatives!
6 Surprising Ways Your Data Is Being Collected
You know that your data is being collected, mainly by your ISP and the surveillance apparatus of the NSA and GCHQ. But who else is mining cash out of your privacy?
Why the FBI's NGI Biometrics Database Should Worry You
The FBI's controversial Next Generation Identification (NGI) system has been making headlines after a request to exempt it from the Privacy Act. But what, exactly, is in the database?
How Shops Track You Using Your Smartphone
How would you feel if a retail tracked your smartphone as you browsed their store? Would it be easier to palate if they offered you some discounts while breaching your privacy?
How Marketers Track Your Behaviors When You're Offline
Did you know that marketers and retailers are monitoring what you do offline, as well as online? Here are some of the interesting strategies they use to connect your online and offline lives.
5 Ways to Set Up Remote Video Surveillance At Home
What solutions can you use to setup video surveillance in your home, and once you’ve done this, what should you be looking at?
Does Your Cousin's DNA Make You a Suspect?
Genealogy websites are now selling DNA testing which will help them to link you to lost branches of your family tree. But this service has a privacy breaching downside, one that could see you incarcerated.
Why Have Americans Given Up On Privacy?
A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication concluded Americans are resigned to giving up data. Why is this, and does it affect more than just Americans?
Pre-Crime Is Here: How Police Assign a Facebook "Threat Score"
The social media monitoring capabilities of the Fresno police department, trialling a controversial piece of software called Beware, have caused a stir. Are police are actively scoring a threat rating based on YOUR Facebook posts?
Your Smart Home Works for the NSA, and You're Being Watched
It seems that the worst fears about the Internet of Things and smart home technology are being realized. Now director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has declared that IoT devices are being used for surveillance.
5 New Gadgets That Present New Security & Privacy Issues
Why does our security and privacy get worse with every new technological service or gadget that's released? Here are five new technologies that are posing a threat to your security and privacy right now.
Stop Windows 10 Nagging, Employers Can Read Your Private Messages... [Tech News Digest]
Microsoft details how to stop Windows 10 nagging, European employees can legally snoop on private messages, YouTube returns to Pakistan, Twitter stock continues to drop, and Snoop Dogg isn't happy with Xbox Live outage.
Political Campaigns Are Tracking You on Facebook, Here's Why
You know by now that companies and government use social media to track you. But there's another group that's watching, analyzing, and capitalizing on every move you make on Facebook: political campaigners.