Security / Privacy – blatcho.com

The US Saw a Spike in Child Sexual Abuse URLs in 2021

CSAM hosting in the United States rose 64 percent last year, putting the country second in the world, a new report found.

It’s your account—you decide who’s allowed to see your vacation photos or slide into your DMs.

Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.

DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave.

A new report Meta commissioned aims to redefine comprehensive encryption as essential to protecting human rights.

Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.

For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.

Europe’s Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between popular messaging apps. But experts warn encryption could be compromised.

If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail.

Lock down your account to tweet in peace or take the guardrails off to court controversy.

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web.

Your lock screen stands between your private data and unwelcome visitors—make sure you set it up correctly.

Useful advice for anyone worried that one of Apple’s trackers is following them without consent.