Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Cooper Quintin, a security researcher ...

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

Slightly more than half of the charities that responded to an online survey on computer-security practices report that they back up their data every day, but 49 percent of the groups say they don’t ...