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Digital Privacy

A collection of 33 issues

Digital Privacy Laws in the United States: A Comprehensive Overview with Crosswalks

The US never wrote a GDPR. It wrote one law for children, one for banks, one for wiretaps, and one for terrorism — decades apart, each patching the last. A crosswalk of what the statutes cover and what falls between them.

Mock Location Apps for Android: A Deep Dive

Five Android apps that let you tell every other app on your phone you are somewhere else — for testing, for region locks, or simply to keep your real position out of somebody's log.

Firefox Privacy and Security Guide (2026)

Firefox 152 reorganised the privacy panel, and three recommendations in the old version of this guide are now wrong. One of them, disabling automatic updates, made readers less safe.

Android Auto vs. Android Automotive OS: A Comprehensive Comparison

Two products, one brand name, and a distinction most drivers never notice until they are shopping for a car. Working out which one is in the dashboard tells you whose software is running and what it is wired into.

Chrome's Advanced Privacy Features: Introducing the Privacy Sandbox

The third-party cookie is being retired by the company that profits most from it. A short look at what Chrome proposes to put in its place, presented in Google's own framing.

VoIP Services for Personal Use: An Overview

A second phone number is the cheapest identity partition you can buy. Which provider you rent it from decides who holds the call logs, whether the audio is encrypted, and whether 911 reaches anyone.

SPAM CALLS BE GONE!

Registering takes five minutes and costs nothing, but it only binds callers who were already following the law. Scammers were never checking the list — here is what the registry actually buys you.

Account Privacy Dashboards

Apple, Google, and Microsoft each publish a page showing what they hold on you. Three links and half an hour tells you what is in the file, starting with whether Maps is still logging where you go.