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What does Brazil’s LGPD data protection law mean for you?

Why is the LGPD important for Brazil?Brazil’s LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, or Brazilian General Data Protection Law) is generally based on GDPR, so Europe provides a pretty good glimpse at what’s to come for Brazil. Since GDPR was implemented on May 25th, 2018, all companies based in Europe.....

The best tech podcasts for beginners and pros

The latest tech news and trendsBest tech podcasts for tech news and trendsClockwiseA roundtable discussion of two hosts, two guests and four current technology issues. The podcast covers topics from electric scooters to voice assistants and Mark Zuckerberg’s latest privacy statements. No episode is .....

How to fix the ‘Your connection is not private’ error

What does ‘Your connection is not private’ mean?When you visit an HTTPS webpage, your browser sends a request to the website's servers. Both the browser and the server need to complete an SSL/TLS handshake to establish a secure connection (you can learn more about the SSL/TLS handshake here). During.....

What is a hoax in the digital world?

Definition of a hoaxA hoax is a message that deceives people into thinking that something is true when it isn’t. Hoaxes can be rumors, urban legends, pseudoscience, or April Fools' stories that are accepted as truth. Back in the 17th-century, to hoax meant “to cheat.” The essence of the word hasn’t .....

Here’s everything Facebook knows about you

Who you areThere’s a lot of personal information you’ve given to Facebook voluntarily. In the ‘About You’ section, you can add everything from your current relationship status and your favorite quotes to very personal information like your birth date, phone number, and home address. This data is a g.....

Can hackers steal your hard-earned loyalty benefits?

How you can loseFraudsters usually target companies with weak loyalty scheme security. Loyalty fraud expert Laura Hurdelbrink has said that electronic cards are really easy to intercept as they are delivered instantly and require no physical shipping address, allowing fraudsters to steal your data j.....

European net neutrality is under attack

EU ISPs — at least as many as 186 of them — are using something called Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to read all of your traffic and decide whether they want you to be free online or not. What is net neutrality?Net neutrality is the idea that all internet connections should be treated equally. In a w.....

How we got sued by TorGuard for trying to disclose their own vulnerability to them

The file revealed how the TorGuard service was configured, displayed private keys, and contained a bunch of other infrastructural IP addresses, including the IPs of their authentication servers and similar assets. Because the file could have been part of some outdated legacy system, we decided to ve.....