OxygenOS, a custom version of the Android operating system that comes installed on all OnePlus smartphones, is tracking users actions without anonymizing data, allowing OnePlus to connect each phone ...

When manuscript authors’ identities and affiliations are blocked from peer reviewers, unconscious bias is less likely to influence peer review than when that information is available, a study finds.

We live in a world where going on the Internet also means bringing the whole wild, wild west into your living room. Every week the media publishes another story about a data breach, privacy invasions, ...

Anonymizing photos and videos can be a time-consuming task sometimes including multiple steps, especially if you want to strip metadata. Developers Playground.AI decided to tackle that problem and ...

Companies offering anonymous web-browsing and communication services are seeing a huge increase in business since recent news leaks about the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass data collection and ...

Not long ago, the content delivery provider CloudFlare claimed that a whopping 94 percent of the requests it gets from people using the Tor anonymizing network are malicious. It needs strict, ...

As a way to facilitate peer-review, openness and bolster legitimacy around medical studies, journals and the research community often encourage study authors to make their original data available ...

Between our smartphones, cars, computers, and credit cards, a substantial portion of our lives are tracked. Where we eat, work, live and play; who we converse with; what we read and what we buy. One ...

Wikileaks is like Wikipedia for sensitive information: a user-populated dossier of classified and leaked stuff, submitted by anonymous sources all over the world. Johnny Law has attempted to shut it ...

The kernel of older Tails versions contains security vulnerabilities. Version 7.4.2 of the anonymizing Linux distribution closes them. In the release announcement for Tails 7.4.2, they explain that ...