Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy privacy. According to a recent article in the Financial Times, How The Super-Rich Are Making Their Homes Invisible, it may no longer be possible to see how the other half live. According to the article, there is a growing movement among rich people […]
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SnapChat is the latest tech company to be sued under a biometric privacy law in the state of Illinois. Two Illinois residents, Jose Luis Martinez and Malcom Neal, filed the lawsuit against SnapChat, claiming that the company is violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The plaintiffs claim that the Lenses feature on SnapChat records […]
The legal privacy wars between tech giants and the United States government continue to heat up. First, Apple fought the federal government over iPhone encryption and now Microsoft is suing the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Loretta Lynch over unconstitutional information requests and secretive customer data searches. Microsoft is accusing the United States […]
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Here is a private and encrypted instant messaging app that even James Bond or Jason Bourne would appreciate. The Tor Project is well known for their work in bringing online privacy to the masses through their popular Tor web browser. Now the famous privacy group has released Tor Messenger, a new instant messaging app that […]
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The facial recognition technology that is used by surveillance cameras, smartphones and social media sites can be fooled by a simple pair of plastic glasses that use a semi-transparent visor to distort people’s facial features. Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics have invented a “Privacy Visor” that can foil facial recognition devices and software […]
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