Data & Privacy
Blocking cookies did not stop tracking, it changed the method
Your browser answers dozens of ordinary technical questions on every page, and the combination of those answers is frequently…
Data & Privacy
Tracking, encryption, telemetry and who gets to see what.
20 articles · updated August 11, 2026 · page 2 of 2
Data & Privacy
Metadata says who, when and where, and it is rarely encrypted
Strong encryption protects what was said. The record that a conversation happened, between whom and for how long, usually travels…
Data & Privacy
Your photographs carry a second file inside them
Every image holds a block of information the camera wrote about itself, the moment and often the exact place, and it travels with…
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A passkey removes the secret you could be tricked into giving away
There is no shared string to type, leak or hand to the wrong site. The device signs a challenge, and the signature only works for…
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Nobody sold your name, they sold everything attached to it
The value is not in any single record. It is in joining scattered records together until they describe one household with…
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Your television is quietly identifying what is on its own screen
It does not need to know the source. It samples what it displays, matches the sample against a reference library and reports what…
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The sender knows you opened it before you finish reading
A message that loads anything from the internet is making a request, and a request is a report of exactly when and roughly where…
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Why adding one lawful key to encryption weakens it for everyone
The technical objection is not that access is impossible. It is that a mechanism for guaranteed access is a mechanism that must…