Get the latest in privacy tips and news with Cloaked’s team of tech experts, engineers, and security professionals. Once upon a time, in the digital stone-age, we were content to navigate our “state of the art” DOS systems without considering the implications of a possible data breach. In fact, data…

Get the latest in privacy tips and news with Cloaked’s team of tech experts, engineers, and security professionals. In 1961, the first computer passwords were created by Fernando Corbato to moderate the use of MIT computer systems. By 1962, a researcher by the name of Allen Scheer, fed up with…

In a recent letter to Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana, Senator Ron Wyden voiced his concern over the current state of privacy amongst federal offices, saying: “I write to urge the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to protect federal networks from foreign spies and criminals who misuse online…

Right To Life, a Texas anti-abortion activist group, has recently experienced the wrath of public pushback and fine print with the loss of it’s whistleblowing website. The official reason GoDaddy, the site’s original domain host, cited for dropping the domain involved an invasion of privacy perpetrated by those exposing the…

In a now infamous tweet, Will Cathcart, head of Whatsapp, voiced his concern over Apple’s announcement to implement scanning software intended to detect child abuse and exploitation. Cathcart made his opinion clear, stating: “I read the information Apple put out yesterday and I’m concerned. I think this is the wrong…

Over the last week, the world has watched as the Taliban has moved into Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and reinstated a reign of terror that’s been a decade in the making. For the people of Afghanistan, this means a return of the archaic treatment of women, public executions, violent…

We’ve spent a lot of time looking at the way that criminals, big tech, and nefarious marketers extract and use our data, but we’re overlooking one of the most controversial privacy topics to date — online surveillance. Law enforcement has been making use of the internet since its inception to…

We know it’s a major issue when even politicians agree on new privacy legislation… Over the last 16-months, the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee has conducted a deep dive investigation into problems with big tech ranging from monopolizing the industry to abuse of consumer data. The findings have resulted in…

Back in the golden age of Google, people loved the bright and shiny user interface and faster speeds offered by the search engine. However, new revelations into how the tech giant trucks in consumer information have turned many people off to Google — and other engines that make their money…