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How and where to opt-out of Google Ad Topics for greater privacy

What Google Ad Topics is, and how to disable it

We explore what Google Ad Topics is, how it functions, and how to disable it. Along the way, we discuss the related topics of Google FLoC, Privacy Sandbox, and the demise of third-party cookies.

Spyware versions of Telegram and Signal on Google Play

Spyware messengers on Google Play

Researchers have found several spyware-infected versions of Telegram and Signal on Google Play.

Privacy and security threats of short links

The perils of short links

How URL shorteners work, how they can be used, and the privacy and security threats they pose.

To Threads or Not to Threads? That is the privacy question

Discussing privacy in Threads, and whether you should sign up to Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone.

How the A-GPS in your smartphone works, and whether Qualcomm is tracking you

Are geolocation services spying on you?

Learn how geolocation services work, and who learns of your location when your smartphone pins it down.

How to block tracker pixels and web beacons

Who is tracking you on the web and how

What web beacons and tracker pixels are, what’s so obnoxious about them, and how to disable them.

Stalkerware — the threat is still there

What is stalkerware, how widespread is the problem, and what is the relationship between domestic and digital abuse.

Social networks and websites aren’t the only ones keeping tabs on users. Smartphone firmware and nonremovable system apps also collect and send lots of data

How smartphone makers track users

A recent study shows that even “clean” Android smartphones collect a lot of information about their owners.

What is App Tracking Transparency, and should you allow apps to track your activity in iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS?

App Tracking Transparency on Apple devices

How to respond to tracking requests in iOS, iPadOS and tvOS 14.5 — or opt out of app tracking completely.

The FPMON extension lets users know which information websites collect to “fingerprint” users’ browsers

How to tell if a website is taking your (browser) fingerprints

Researchers have created an extension to learn about the information websites collect to “fingerprint” browsers.

hree methods to find out if spyware or stalkerware apps are lurking on your smartphone

Three ways to unmask a mobile spy

Three ways to find a surveillance apps on your smartphone.

Mobile apps are watching you

Mobile apps can track your location and sell the data to third parties. What can you do about it?

Why you should try listening to your cookies

Listen to your cookies with the Listening Back browser extension to understand the real scale of Web tracking.

How to keep spies off your phone — in real life, not the movies

How paranoid employers and jealous partners can spy on you, and why chip bags are best left to movie heroes.

Terminator 6/3: Sarah Connor and a bag of chips

In the latest Terminator movie, is Sarah Connor protected against cell-phone tracking?

I heard a bug in Kaspersky products could be used for spying. Is that true?

The truth about the recently discovered — and already fixed — bug in Kaspersky consumer products.

E-mail tracking: What it is and how you can protect yourself

Creators of ad mailings and spam are very interested in knowing whether you read their messages. This post explains how to protect against e-mail tracking.