Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. / ProPublica Oct 29, 2016 Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Zombie Cookies Will Be Killed, Company Says

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2015 Tech company Turn said it would stop using tracking cookies that are impossible to delete. The decision came in response to a recent ProPublica article that revealed the controversial practice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie Verizon Customers Can’t Kill

Staff / Truthdig Jan 15, 2015 An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. Turn’s services are used by everyone from Google to Facebook. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AT&T Stops Tracking Customers but Verizon Remains Committed to Prying

Staff / Truthdig Nov 15, 2014 Negative press coverage has forced the wireless carrier to reconsider selling customer data to advertisers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Here’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2014 Last week, German journalists revealed that the National Security Agency has a program to collect information about people who use privacy-protecting services, including popular anonymizing software called Tor. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Privacy Tools: Encrypt What You Can

Staff / Truthdig May 7, 2014 Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the inner secrets of the NSA, he has been urging Americans to use encryption to protect themselves from rampant spying. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Torture ‘Was the Last Straw for Me,’ CIA Rebel Ray McGovern Says

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Sen. Dianne Feinstein picks a fight with the CIA on spying and torture, Fukushima turns 3, how to protect yourself from private and government surveillance, and the handful of American families who have all the power. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi

Staff / Truthdig Feb 12, 2014 The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the Communist regime. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Privacy Tools: How to Opt Out From Data Brokers

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Privacy Tools: How to Build Better Passwords

By Julia Angwin, ProPublica Jan 22, 2014 Passwords are the first line of defense between your private data and an attacker. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Privacy Tools: How to Safely Browse the Web

BLANK Jan 15, 2014 In the course of writing her book, "Dragnet Nation," ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In this blog post, she distills the lessons from her privacy experiments into useful tips for readers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )