What kind of large corporate site, you might ask, would actually want to trumpet the fact that they’re nefariously harvesting and pimping your personal data? None ...

Mozilla has taken the lead among browser vendors to make a site's privacy settings more explicitly visible. It's doing so by proposing visual cues in the browser that indicate what level of privacy ...

Throw together some of the world's foremost thinkers of online privacy and representatives from Mozilla into a room, and given enough time something incredible will ...

Chrome/Firefox: Privacy policies are long and complicated legalese, but they're important to review if you want to know how a company will handle your data, whether ...

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We begin with one major problem about privacy policies (and privacy communications in general): the language in this space is so complicated that users can't understand it. As a result they've ...

iOS 11.3 landed with a bunch of big features this morning but it looks like Apple added a few small surprises not mentioned in its preview, including a new feature that makes it easier to tell when ...

The small symbols that light up in the Windows taskbar are not just decoration, they are often the only warning that your camera, microphone, or other sensitive features are active. If you suddenly ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

The car company Kia Motors America ran a retargeting campaign without including the privacy icons that are supposed to inform consumers about online behavioral advertising, the Better Business ...

iPhone or iPad users, if you update to iOS 11.3 now, you'll have new features and a bunch of security updates. But you'll still be just as vulnerable to on-device phishing attacks as you ever were. A ...