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What is data anonymization? Benefits, methods, and best practices
Companies regularly collect data on their customers, which they can use for various purposes, including selling to other organizations. However, to comply with data privacy regulations, they may need ...
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Prevent cross-site tracking: What it is and how to block it
Cross-site tracking is rampant across the web. Those ads that follow you from site to site are no coincidence. Advertisers, websites, and data collection companies are eager to gather details about ev...
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How to delete all your Google search history permanently
Ever wondered how much of your online life Google remembers? From your favorite restaurants to those random, late-night questions, your search history holds more than you think. It's like a digital di...
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Q&A: ExpressVPN co-founder Peter Burchhardt on the shifting state of digital privacy
The need for privacy protections has remained a constant since ExpressVPN's founding in 2009, but the tools, technology, and threats have all shifted and evolved. We sat down with Peter Burchhardt, on...
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Q&A: Kateryna Balaban, on how VPNs are helping protect refugees
Kateryna Balaban is the Managing Director of Linking Help, the NGO behind UA.SUPPORT—an international pro bono legal platform and ExpressVPN partner that connects Ukranian refugees and asylum seeker...
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Q&A: Mark Weinstein, on making social media serve the user again
Mark Weinstein is a privacy advocate and the founder of MeWe, a social networking platform with no ads, no personal data collection, and no newsfeed manipulation. In 2022, Weinstein left MeWe, which h...
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Q&A: Pippa King, on the fight against surveillance in schools
Pippa King is a UK-based activist seeking transparency and accountability with the use of biometric surveillance, particularly when it comes to the surveillance of children. We speak with her about th...
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Q&A with surveillance critic Albert Fox Cahn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqb8eTsmHDs Albert Fox Cahn is founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a non-profit organization that aims to ensure...
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The founder of Yale’s Privacy Lab is worried by the coming age of surveillance and facial recognition
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on January 14, 2020. Sean O’Brien later joined us as Principal Researcher to establish our new Digital Security Lab, focusing on high-quality, ori...
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Privacy Q&A: EFF wants 9 tech giants to #FixItAlready
This article was originally published on March 22, 2019. Perhaps the worst aspect of the privacy and security issues plaguing the tech we use every day is that they seem completely preventable. Why h...
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