Band-aid over a phone with the EU logo.
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The EU wants you to have the ‘right to repair’ your electronic devices
The EU wants to make it easier for you to upgrade and repair your devices on your own, instead of having to replace them with brand new ones.
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Free things you can do online when you’re stuck at home
From museums and art galleries to games and newspapers, here’s a list of things to do online when you’re stuck at home.
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Why isn’t Big Tech embraced in its own backyard?
Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s Bay Area have long been synonymous with Big Tech. It was the center of the dot-com boom of the...
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Countries are using greater surveillance measures to track Covid-19. What are they tracking?
Heightened global concerns over the novel coronavirus have compelled countries to implement measures such as flight suspensions, mandatory quarantine and work from home mandates,...
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8 anti-spam techniques your email uses to prevent spam
Email spam has evolved dramatically, but so have the tools to detect it. Here's how spam filters keep your inbox clean.
An illustration of a man wearing a smiley-face mask.
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Students and activists in the U.S. lead the fight against facial recognition
Facial recognition tech can identify us in crowds, but a new wave of privacy advocates want to outlaw the algorithms across the U.S.
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How to work from home: Keeping safe and sane while remote
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted a lot of companies, including Google and Apple, to recommend their employees work from home. Many events have been...
Google's terms of service with yes and no buttons.
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Google is trying to make its new terms of service more readable
NOTE: This post was originally published on March 6, 2020 If you’ve googled something at some point in the last couple of weeks, you’ve likely...
Tiled CA certificates.
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Let’s Encrypt has issued a billion certificates, securely encrypting nearly 200 million sites
An effortless way to check whether the site you just logged on to maintains an encrypted connection is whether it starts with HTTP or...
A screenshot of the Google homepage with a tear drop where the extension icon should be.
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Chrome extensions found leaking millions of records
Malicious browser extensions discreetly uploaded personal user data to unknown servers, in a complex web that could be at least 3 years old.

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