Exploring Privacy Leakage and Data Disclosure Violations in the MacOS Application Ecosystem

The systematic and excessive data collection practices of tech companies have rendered online privacy both a necessity and a sought-after commodity. However, while the privacy risks of the web, mobile, and IoT ecosystems have been extensively examined, desktop environments have been largely...

Online privacy in 2019: a legislative review

For decades, the United States treated data privacy like an aging home, patching individual leaks and drafts only when a new storm hit. The country passed a law protecting healthcare-related information, and not much else. It then passed a law protecting video rental information, and not much els...

Guardian Firewall iOS App Automatically Blocks the Trackers on Your Phone

The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers...