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 ...

Today, good marketing relies on having detailed and accurate customer data. And companies, not surprisingly, are eager to collect vast troves of it. For instance, Amazon continuously tracks the ...

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.

The ICO has published its data protection code of practice (.pdf), which aims to help businesses and consumers understand individual privacy legislation. When more and more data is being placed in the ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Current methods for anonymizing data leave individuals at risk of being re-identified, according to new research. With the first large fines for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

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 ...

A security vulnerability in Flatpak is the trigger for an emergency update for the Linux distribution Tails, which enables ...