Learn how to design for privacy and security from Facebook’s Benjamin Strahs

 Freshly-launched startups don’t often have the funding for a fully formed security team, but a data…

Private search browser Cliqz buys Ghostery ad-tracker tool

 Mozilla-backed Cliqz, a German startup building an anti-tracking browser with a built-in private search feature powered…

You can now use Signal for encrypted video calls

 Open Whisper Systems, creator of encrypted communication platform Signal, released an update today as an open…

ACLU calls for tech firms to lobby for surveillance reform

 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put out a fresh call for tech companies to…

Attack of the apps

 Mobile surveillance by ad-sponsored smartphone apps is intrusive and creepy — and it can easily compromise…

Messaging app Wire now has an external audit of its e2e crypto

 Encrypted messaging app Wire has now published an external audit of its crypto protocol, Proteus, and…

Legal challenge to Facebook EU-US data transfer mechanism kicks off in Ireland

 Another legal challenge to a data transfer authorization mechanism relied upon by Facebook and thousands of…

A bill requiring the government to obtain a warrant to search your email just flew through the House

 A bill set to update online privacy laws dating back three decades just cruised through the…