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Disconnect CEO Explains That New Do Not Track Policy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation released what it called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-announces-new-do-not-track-standard-web-browsing">a "stronger" Do Not T

A Closer Look At Blackphone, The Android Smartphone That Simplifies Privacy

One of the more interesting devices here at Mobile World Congress is Blackphone: a pro-privacy handset being developed by Spanish startup Geeksphone, in partnership with U.S. security company Silent C

Disconnect Search, Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers, Lets You Use Google, Bing And Yahoo Without Tracking

Started as a side project by then-Googler Brian Kennish <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebook-disconnec/">back in 2010</a> to cut out ad tracking during a person's Facebook browsi

Disconnect, An Ex-Googler’s Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M, Extends To More Browsers

As we continue to see <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/prism/">more details brought to light</a> in how the government requests and uses information about what we do on the web and on our mobile de

Disconnect 2 Brings More Privacy To Your Browser, Lets You Block 2K+ Sites From Tracking Your Activity Online

With the Era of Over-sharing and the Social Fire Hose upon us, the heft and value of privacy is changing -- and, for better or worse, many argue that it's diminishing. Perturbed by the access many com

Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data

In the age of endless sharing, super cookies, social search results, and that ever-present social graph, it's comforting to know that there are some who are still prioritizing privacy. (And a few of t

Former Googler Launches Disconnect, Browser Extension That Disables Third Party Data Tracking

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/screen-shot-2010-12-12-at-9-41-25-pm.png" alt="" /> You remember Facebook Disconnect, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebo