Ceinwen Thomas

Ceinwen focused on digital privacy, censorship, and surveillance, and has interviewed leading figures in tech.

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Your school is tracking your online activity—here’s what to do about...
In a single tectonic shift, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed schooling and education online to adjust to lockdowns and social-distancing...
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14 cybersecurity resolutions to stay private in 2023
With the new year almost upon us, it’s time to sit down and draw up a few New Year’s...
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5 things to do in isolation, whatever your holiday mood
Spend your socially distanced holidays the way you want, whether it’s with others or in your own company.
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2021 Gift Guide: Best cybersecurity gifts for privacy protection
This post was originally published on December 11, 2020. In the whirlwind season of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales...
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With a new bill, Canada could get very tough on data...
If passed, the GDPR-style regulations would include some of the heaviest fines in the world for privacy violations.
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Canada’s version of the NSA is just as bad
So you thought the NSA was shady. Turns out Canada’s surveillance agency exercises egregious online monitoring, too.
Dog's nose over a coronavirus particle.
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A less-invasive Covid-19 tracker: Sniffer dogs
Dogs are one of the most low-tech forms of surveillance around—and now a welcome addition in the effort to control the virus’s spread.
Encrypted code going into a ballot box.
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Voters chose their digital rights on Election Day
Residents of California, Massachusetts, and Maine had their say over facial recognition, data gathering, and the right to repair vehicles.
ExpressVPN Scholarship 2020 winner.
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Announcing the winner of the 2020 Future of Privacy Scholarship
The 2020 ExpressVPN essay competition has a winner. Read the top entry and our interview with the scholarship recipient.
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Limiting the president’s power to shut down the internet
Right now, it’s alarmingly easy for the U.S. president to make the internet go dark. A new bill aims to change that.

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