Eva Galperin is director of cybersecurity for the online security organization Electronic Frontier Foundation.

A research presented in 2019 by Jacob Leon Kröger and Philip Raschke, during the 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, analyze technical and economical feasibility of eavesdropping on modern smartphones.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the most respected associations for the protection of privacy and digital rights, that fights since its beginnings against abuses of digital technologies, has published a large article that takes stock of anti-pandemic tracking apps, with an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of this topic.

In an interesting article on The MIT Press Reader, Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum discuss how opting out of surveillance is practically useless, and suggests to use data obfuscation as a better alternative.

The Signal protocol is provides end-to-end encryption for instant messaging in WhatsApp, Wire, and Facebook Messenger among many others, serving well over 1 billion active users.

Since Windows 8, Microsoft has moved to a new commercial strategy: in addition with traditional selling of OS licenses, started got revenues from searches, apps and games.
But to do this, MS has started the collection of “telemetry” data, considered by many users as privacy-relevant.

Do you need a secure and private messenger? You shouldn’t be use Telegram!

It is well known that voice assistants aren’t perfect and will start recording event when you don’t say their trigger word, but a team of researchers wanted to quantify how often these activations happen and what the devices hear when they do.

In order to avoid sourveillance, privacy invasion or information theft you must be sure that the data on your devices are secure, and the only way to do that in this day and age is to make sure they are full disk encrypted.

Recently, digital intruders entered the Ring surveillance camera in the bedroom of an 8-year-old girl in Mississippi and started talking to her [1], then various other intrusions took place and it emerged that 3600 e-mail addresses, passwords, localizations and other personal data of Ring users were published online [4].