After months of delays, the US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend a controversial warrantless wiretap program for
Continue readingTag: privacy
House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized. After months
Continue readingDuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers
Under the hood, things are more complex. Greg Fiorentino, a product director at DuckDuckGo, says when you enter your personal
Continue readingThe Best Personal Safety Devices, Apps, and Wearables (2024)
WIRED senior associate editor Adrienne So tried testing the incident detection feature with her Garmin Venu 2S and couldn’t get
Continue readingTrump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program
For the third time since December, House Speaker Mike Johnson has failed to wrangle support for reauthorizing a critical US
Continue readingHow to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
On its help pages, OpenAI says ChatGPT web users without accounts should navigate to Settings and then uncheck Improve the
Continue readingAI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect
You answer a random call from a family member, and they breathlessly explain how there’s been a horrible car accident.
Continue readingA Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
Congress may be closer than ever to passing a comprehensive data privacy framework after key House and Senate committee leaders
Continue readingBest Privacy Browsers (2024): Brave, Safari, Ghostery, Firefox, DuckDuckGo
The browser is part of a bigger project to keep internet browsing anonymous: Use Tor and you use the Tor
Continue readingIdentity Thief Lived as a Different Man for 33 Years
It’s been a week since the world avoided a potentially catastrophic cyberattack. On March 29, Microsoft developer Andres Freund disclosed
Continue reading