Chrome, Safari and Opera criticised for removing privacy setting

Forthcoming versions of the Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera are in the process of removing the ability to disable a long-ignored tracking feature called hyperlink auditing pings.

Thunderclap: Apple Macs at risk from malicious Thunderbolt peripherals

Researchers have revealed how malicious Thunderbolt and PCI Express (PCIe) peripherals could be used to compromise computers running macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

Thousands of Android apps bypass Advertising ID to track users

Six years after it was introduced, it looks as if Android’s Advertising ID (AAID) might no longer be the privacy forcefield Google claimed it would be.