Private mode browsing is a useful way to cover your online tracks. Just don't read too much into the word 'private.'
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The US is also 'looking at' banning the Chinese social media app.
Zoom's privacy and security shortcomings are just the latest videoconferencing vulnerabilities. Knowing each platform's risks can help people avoid many of the downsides of virtual gatherings.
Data privacy regulations are being adopted to protect internet users. Today, humans need to read those rules to ensure compliance. New research suggests machines could interpret them in real time.
Hey Alexa, who are you sharing my data with?
Facebook is planning to put end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services soon. But governments aren't happy about it, as it could make it harder to catch criminals.
Many sites offer the ability to 'opt out' of targeted advertisements, but doing so isn't easy. Simplifying and standardizing opt-outs would help improve privacy on the web.
Web browsers are introducing encryption technology that could stop governments spying on you – and catching criminals.
The law is out of step with technology that means anyone can manipulate your images in hyper-realistic ways.
Privacy starts with the body and extends to digital data. There are few rules governing what companies can do – yet people can't effectively protect their own privacy.
An entire industry exists to trade on your personal data - everything from your shopping habits to your political views and medical conditions. The results can genuinely harm consumers.
There's no way an independent assessor will be able to actually monitor how Facebook might violate or abuse users' privacy in key ways.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the sheer dominance of Google and Facebook has distorted other businesses' ability to compete on their own merits.
People could be asked to prove their identity to continuing posting political content or adverts on Facebook.
Even governments in democracies with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.
Consumers want better protection for their data, and businesses want clear national laws. Yet there is virtually no consensus about what a broad privacy law should entail.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claimed intent to focus on privacy will be hard to execute, will not happen soon and does not address major concerns about the company's role in society.
While shifting cyber safety education beyond privacy is a step in the right direction, teachers already have to contend with an overcrowded curriculum.
If you're worried your phone is recording your private conversations, look closer at the data you've already agreed to give away.
Blockchain technologies can support users in controlling access to their data through smart contracts that both empower and protect users.
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Survey Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Lecturer - Communications and Media Studies (Big Data/Quantitative Analytics and Research Methods), University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics and the Cyber Dimension, Aberystwyth University
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Professor, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Technology, The Open University
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
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PhD, Media and Politics, Deakin University
