CBC's Marketplace took smartphones and laptops to tech repair stores across Ontario including large chains Best Buy and Mobile Klinik in a snooping test and found that in more than half of the documented cases, technicians accessed intimate photos and private information not relevant to the repair.
Technology and mobile devices are most associated with younger users, but older adults are hardly missing out. According to the Pew Research Center, an estimated 61 per cent of older
The APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) is proud to announce the accepted papers for its 2022 edition of the conference, this year
When you open Google Chrome and click incognito mode, do you think your data is hidden? That websites can’t track what you click or that your internet service provider (ISP) can’t see which sites you're visiting? If you answered yes to any of those, you’d be sorely mistaken. Google is caught up in a $5B lawsuit over the actual level of privacy offered by its incognito feature. A U.S. judge allowed the class action to move forward over claims that incognito mode may have lulled users into a false sense of privacy while continuing to collect their data.
It’s no secret that the commercial websites and mobile apps we use every day are tracking us. Big companies like Facebook and Google depend on it. However, as a new