privacy

When Google announced Allo, we thought the search giant was finally paying attention to users’ concerns about privacy. Reality turned to be quite different.

Why questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” and “What did you do last summer?” don’t protect you.

Digital advertising brings money to companies and relevant ads to you and me — and attracts fraud. How does it all work?

Facebook is going to use your WhatsApp data to tune its advertising, but for now you can opt out of this deal.

Powerful chatbots can replace real-life communication — and take over the world.

One Instagram post with a picture of a ticket can cost you a whole lot of time and money and ruin your day. This is how you can avoid it

If you own an Apple device, spend a few minutes setting up your System Location Services. You’ll protect your privacy and lengthen battery life.

Today, it seems everything can be hacked. Even your vibrator. This is the tale of developers of very intimate goods who do not value the privacy of their clients.

Did you know that some apps on your iPhone or iPad track your location, access your camera and calendar, and more? In Part 1 of this story, we show you how to turn off tracking using iOS’s privacy features.

Accurate identification of people’s faces is a very human process but computers are gaining on our processing. A look at what’s going on now and what we’ll see soon.

Kaspersky Internet Security and Kaspersky Total Security can help protect your privacy in a variety of ways including not allowing your webcam to serve as a spying device.

A recent story suggests Google is secretly recording your conversations and discussions. Are they really doing that?

At the recent I/O 2016 conference Google announced Android N, Wear 2.0, new messenger Allo, voice assistant Google Home, and a laundry list of other tech miracles. What about security?

Your smartphone knows everything about you: whom you call and what messages you send, which websites you visit and what photos you take, including even when and where you do it. This data may be used against you.

Do you know how many companies are actually tracking you when you visit a single website? The answer may surprise you.

We’ve seen drones armed with chainsaws and guns. More alarming though is how easily they can be hacked.

Internet-trolls are back in the game: 2ch anonymous hacked hundreds devices and streamed video from victims’ homes for the kick of it.

Aggressive moral crusaders search for porn actresses accounts on VK.com and cyberbully them along with their friends and families.

The Kaspersky Daily team checks if FindFace can really find users on a social media site with one image taken on the street and if it is possible to hide from it. Some interesting peculiarities detected!

How everyone and his dog online make the big data tyranny raise.

VPN’s features and pitfalls from legal and technical standpoint