OxygenOS, a custom version of the Android operating system that comes installed on all OnePlus smartphones, is tracking users actions without anonymizing data, allowing OnePlus to connect each phone ...

Today, good marketing relies on having detailed and accurate customer data. And companies, not surprisingly, are eager to collect vast troves of it. For instance, Amazon continuously tracks the ...

We live in a world where going on the Internet also means bringing the whole wild, wild west into your living room. Every week the media publishes another story about a data breach, privacy invasions, ...

A new report reveals that Meta and Yandex have found a way to bypass Android’s privacy controls by passing web identifiers from browsers to their native apps, effectively de-anonymizing users’ web ...

Current methods for anonymizing data leave individuals at risk of being re-identified, according to new research. With the first large fines for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

Not long ago, the content delivery provider CloudFlare claimed that a whopping 94 percent of the requests it gets from people using the Tor anonymizing network are malicious. It needs strict, ...

The anonymizing Linux Tails closes Firefox security vulnerabilities in the Tor Browser in version 7.7.1, among others.

Companies offering anonymous web-browsing and communication services are seeing a huge increase in business since recent news leaks about the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass data collection and ...

Anonymizing photos and videos can be a time-consuming task sometimes including multiple steps, especially if you want to strip metadata. Developers Playground.AI decided to tackle that problem and ...

When manuscript authors’ identities and affiliations are blocked from peer reviewers, unconscious bias is less likely to influence peer review than when that information is available, a study finds.