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Fragmented US privacy rules leave large data loopholes for Facebook and...

Staff Writer - April 10, 2018

Florian Schaub, University of Michigan Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony will discuss ways to keep people’s online data private, which I’m interested in as...

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Why it’s so hard to #DeleteFacebook: Constant psychological boosts keep you...

Staff Writer - March 28, 2018

S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State University; Bingjie Liu, Pennsylvania State University; Carlina DiRusso, Pennsylvania State University, and Michael Krieger, Pennsylvania State University Here we go...

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The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...

Staff Writer - March 27, 2018

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...

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Encrypted smartphones secure your identity, not just your data

Staff Writer - February 28, 2018

Susan Landau, Tufts University Smartphones store your email, your photos and your calendar. They provide access to online social media sites like Facebook and Twitter,...

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Your mobile phone can give away your location, even if you...

Staff Writer - February 7, 2018

Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University U.S. military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that servicemembers’ digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their...

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Is there such a thing as online privacy? 7 essential reads

Staff Writer - December 29, 2017

Jeff Inglis, The Conversation Over the course of 2017, people in the U.S. and around the world became increasingly concerned about how their digital data...

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Is there such a thing as online privacy? 7 essential reads

Staff Writer - December 27, 2017

Jeff Inglis, The Conversation Over the course of 2017, people in the U.S. and around the world became increasingly concerned about how their digital data...

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Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked

Staff Writer - November 2, 2017

Susan Landau, Tufts University The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25...