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Google is using Gmail to track your purchases. No one knows why.

For almost six years, Google has extracted and stored all purchases, bookings, and subscriptions from your Gmail account. It’s not clear why Google wants...
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The fight for your face: The battles deciding the fate of facial recognition

Companies and governments are putting more resources into facial recognition technology to capture your face. Now, people are fighting back.
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Worried your devices will get confiscated at the border? Here’s what you can do

There is growing evidence to suggest that border security agents are taking greater steps to intrude into our daily lives. Just last year, customs...
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Profits rise, but Facebook’s poor privacy could still cost Zuckerberg

NOTE: This post was originally published on April 25, 2019 Countless privacy breaches don’t seem to have taken their toll on Mark Zuckerberg’s wallet. Though Facebook...
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Will ExpressVPN use the WireGuard protocol?

While we have a lot of respect for WireGuard, ExpressVPN has developed its own VPN protocol, Lightway, as a secure and reliable alternative.
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10 ways the NSA is spying on you right now

What is the NSA? The spying powers of the NSA have broadened since the Patriot Act. Here’s how the NSA could be spying on you right now.
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A controversial NSA phone records program might be shutting down

The National Security Agency (NSA) may be ending a program that analyzes the records of hundreds of millions of domestic calls and messages in...
Massive housing leak exposed buyer documents
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An unprotected server leaked 24 million sensitive housing documents not once but twice

Personal documents included mortgage loan agreements, payment schedules, borrowers’ phone numbers, and more.
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Share files securely and anonymously with OnionShare 2

We’ve been using OnionShare for a while at ExpressVPN and are quite excited to get our hands on the second version of Micah Lee’s...
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Delete these now: The worst apps for privacy in 2019

These apps were some of the worst for privacy in 2019.

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