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Chrome tracks more than you realize. Here’s how to take back your privacy

Chrome is the most popular browser in the world by a country mile. With more than 77% of the browser market across all kinds of devices, it’s most people’s first choice—especially...

Privacy Trends Fashion, Beauty, and Wearable Tech Brands Need to Watch

Fashion, beauty, and wearable technology brands are heading into 2026 with a lot more to think about concerning data privacy. What used to feel like a back-end legal issue is now s...

How to remove your personal data from the internet (and why you can’t afford to wait)

Data brokers make a living by selling your personal information for profit. Your phone number, email, home address, and Social Security number could be packaged and sold to spammer...

Perplexity ‘Incognito’ chats might not be so private, lawsuit claims

If you have information you want to stay private, don't give it to AI.

You’re being tracked. Vermont can do something about it.

Every time you go online, businesses are collecting your data. A new bill before the Legislature would put limits on what they can do with it. Read the story on VTDigger here: You...

How Anonymous Proxy Servers Help Reduce Exposure Online

One of the biggest issues with the Internet is privacy. Whenever you browse, you leave digital breadcrumbs that companies analyze to build profiles of your personal life and activi...

Online age checks create privacy risks

New research indicates that one of the world's leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data.

Online ads are snitching more about your private life than you bargained for, finds research

New research shows that the ads you see online carry enough information for AI to reconstruct a detailed personal profile, without you clicking anything or sharing any data.

Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says

Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.

Meta’s Incognito AI Chat: Can Private AI Really Exist in a Data-Driven World?

Introduction The introduction of generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) into the mainstream digital communication platforms is rapidly changing the way we interact online. One o...

Call for parents to teach online privacy like road safety

Three in four parents fear their child cannot make safe choices about personal data online, the data watchdog finds.

This website shows you exactly what sites know about you

There are a lot of things you can do to make it harder to trace who you are online. But, like the criminal in a shitty prime-time cop show, we always leave behind a little...

Privacy Trends Fashion, Beauty, and Wearable Tech Brands Need to Watch

Fashion, beauty, and wearable technology brands are heading into 2026 with a lot more to think about concerning data privacy. What used to feel like a back-end legal issue is now s...

Perplexity’s privacy lawsuit bombshells will make you sweat about using the AI tool

Perplexity faces a lawsuit alleging its incognito mode shared user data with Google and Meta, raising serious concerns about AI chat privacy.

States Ramp Up Restrictions on Sale of Sensitive Consumer Data

Maryland’s law banning the sale of sensitive data signals a shift toward stricter state privacy regulation.

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Age verification laws do not make us safer

The advocates of enforced age verification promise safe and secure technologies that protect user privacy.Age verification mechanisms have, they insist, developed sufficiently, use...

How to protect your privacy by opting out of data collection in popular AI apps [Sponsored]

A recent study found that around a third of AI app users are having deeply personal conversations with the chatbots. Even if you’re not sharing your deepest fears with an AI app, y...

1 In 4 Primary School Children Have Shared Names Or Addresses Online

Almost one-quarter (24%) of primary school-aged children have shared their real name or address online, according to new research, with eight and nine-year-olds most at risk of doi...

Data brokers can learn all about you just from what online ads you see. Here's how to stop them.

Digital ads are a commonality across the internet. You see them in Google Search, social media feeds, and even on your favorite websites. If you spend enough time online, you might...

Privacy in Divorce: How to Protect Yourself in Court and Online

Learn what information becomes public in an Ontario divorce, and the legal strategies that safeguard your privacy during litigation.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: A Federal Private Right of Action for Privacy Policy Inaccuracies? Part Two (...

Welcome to Part Two of our series that examines the ECPA as a private right of action for privacy policy inaccuracies. In Part One of this series, we examined how a wave of state-...

Canada lawful access bill faces backlashes from privacy watchdog and tech giants

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said Tuesday that the federal lawful access bill requires further amendments to strengthen privacy protections for Canadians despite...

Digital Minimalism: Stewardship Protects Your Personal Privacy Data

As international travel continues to reach new heights in 2026, many explorers are returning from vibrant destinations like Thailand with a wealth of digital memories and several n...