A less-invasive Covid-19 tracker: Sniffer dogs
The technological solutions that countries have implemented to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 have been costly to individual privacy.
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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.
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.
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.
7 countries are calling for access to your private messages
Citing public safety, governments are pushing for backdoors into apps that have end-to-end encryption.
Yes, your e-reader tracks you, too. Here’s what to do about...
Kindle tells Amazon about your page turns, dictionary lookups, highlights, notes, and more.
Denmark’s lesson in whistleblowing: Don’t arrest the whistleblowers
Seven years after Snowden, Denmark shows how a government should respond to whistleblowers.
Instagram stored messages and photos you wanted to delete
An independent security researcher found photos and messages more than a year after he deleted them.
Lockdowns highlight the need to repair devices ourselves
Brands create obstacles to fixing our devices affordably or at all. And with service centers closed during the pandemic, consumers are left with no options.
To combat fake pandemic news, countries beef up censorship
These new measures suppressing press and internet freedoms are ripe for abuse.
