Back in March 2007, Google promised to begin anonymizing log data to better protect user privacy. That kicked off a wave of privacy pledges from competing search engines. In addition, by agreeing to ...

Personal information can be routinely de-identified before it is used or disclosed for a wide range of purposes, such as research, where it is not necessary to know the identity of individuals.

A new report reveals that Meta and Yandex have found a way to bypass Android’s privacy controls by passing web identifiers from browsers to their native apps, effectively de-anonymizing users’ web ...

Security outfit Exodus Intelligence has found a serious flaw in the I2P anonymizing network layer, which is a feature found in the privacy-focused Tails Linux distribution. It’s not a vulnerability in ...

Spur’s 2026 IP Intelligence Study found anonymizing infrastructure such as VPNs and residential proxies is now involved in nearly all modern cyberattacks while many organizations remain unprepared to ...

An updated version of the anonymizing Linux Tails has been released. In it, the developers close security gaps that allow attackers to deanonymize users. In the version announcement, the Tails ...

Google has announced that it will now anonymize the server log data that it collects after 18 to 24 months, as a way to better protect the privacy of its users. Until now, Google has retained server ...

The developers of the anonymizing Linux distribution Tails for USB sticks are updating core components in version 7.11.

Companies offering anonymous Web browsing and communication services are seeing a huge increase in business since recent news leaks about the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass data collection and ...

Companies offering anonymous Web browsing and communication services are seeing a huge increase in business since recent news leaks about the National Security Agency’s mass data collection and ...