Since the stir about Apple’s invasive and hypocritical promotion of personal privacy, these stories about scanning cloud data for material which is deemed inappropriate, keep popping up. More and more users start to wonder: what exactly is happening to all my images, emails, pdfs, search traffic, etc. That’s a good thing. The pervasive sense that […]

There’s a great piece in the New York Times about Facebook’s tangle with it’s semi-independent data analytics tool, CrowdTangle. That tool was generating data which was driving some really bad press during the presidential election cycle. CrowdTangle is used by researchers, marketers, and journalists to evaluate and measure the engagement of specific Facebook content. Unfortunately […]

The FBI has just releases a new public service campaign in New York. It’s hit the press pretty well, but gamers are wondering why it took so long. Tonia Hastings (not her real name) has been harassed for years by creeps on the internet while plugged in to her favourite MMORPG platform. “I always choose […]

Every generation benefits from the advances and suffers from the mistakes made by its predecessors. Many of the problems we face today were created decades, if not centuries, ago. Climate change, social disparity, racism—messes we didn’t make but messes we live with and try to clean up nonetheless. Our generation is no different, though the […]

If you’re a Google Cloud customer, like we are, you’ve received updated information on the Google Subprocessors list… So what might that be? And what might a Google Subprocessor do? Well, according to Google, third-party subprocessors: “perform limited activities in connection with the Google Cloud Platform Services. The table shows what activity each entity performs […]

Bipartisan rancour. It’s almost pleasant to watch. Whether it’s a Democrat complaining about mis-information or a Republican throwing hypocritical barbs about censorship, Washington is the circus to see. Big Tech has been dancing and the politicians have been playing ring master. My favourite bits though, are inside the tent of mirrors. Epic’s battle, Spotify suing […]

Here’s a hard truth for parents: Big Tech knows more about your kids than you do.  Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter and so many more are vacuuming up countless bits of digital information about users. The details, when aggregated, paint a portrait of each person online that ordinary humans are unable to put together themselves. […]

If the New York Times starts to get it, so do a lot of other people. This article is one of the best explanations of why you need a private browser, and why you need to stop drinking the Chrome, Safari, Edge Kool aid. If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New […]