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Tag results: Privacy

We Value Your Feedback

How the suggestion box, once a simple tool for giving feedback, played a role in the weirder and darker data-hungry present for many companies.

Jun 17, 2022

Surfing Upstream

In an era when hundreds of free web browsers exist, Orion Browser has a novel idea: It wants to charge money. Why’s that? Simple: It wants to fix the paradigm.

Jan 19, 2022

Know Who’s Calling?

Over the past 35 years, our views on privacy and Caller ID technology have totally flipped. The concern used to be about the caller. Now, it’s the recipient.

Dec 05, 2019

When a Brand Ruins Your Faves

For the last couple of months, Facebook has leaned on The Muppets to help salvage its damaged reputation on privacy issues. Hey Facebook, could you please not?

Dec 03, 2019

The Digital Fine Print

The recent saga Evernote faced with its privacy policy proves the document's necessity. But did you know there's no single federal law mandating its use?

Dec 15, 2016

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