anonymity
Google Cloud launches its new data loss prevention tool for BigQuery
Inevitably, large businesses will collect all kinds of sensitive data. Often, that’s personal identifiable data (PII) of their customers and employees, or other information that only a select nu
Apple adds anonymous symptom and health info sharing to its COVID-19 app and website
Apple has updated its own COVID-19 iOS app and website with new features to allow users to anonymously share info, including their age, number of existing health conditions, symptoms, potential exposu
Teen hit Yolo raises $8M to let you Snapchat anonymously
It wasn’t a fad. Yolo became the country’s No. 1 app just a week after launch by letting teens ask for anonymous replies to questions they posted on Snapchat. But nine months later, Yolo i
Privacy researchers devise a noise-exploitation attack that defeats dynamic anonymity
Privacy researchers in Europe believe they have the first proof that a long-theorised vulnerability in systems designed to protect privacy by aggregating and adding noise to data to mask individual id
Researchers spotlight the lie of ‘anonymous’ data
Researchers from two universities in Europe have published a method they say is able to correctly re-identify 99.98% of individuals in anonymized data sets with just 15 demographic attributes. Their m
Anonymous vows to take down Q
A cheerful video released by YourAnonNews suggests that the murky hacker collective called Anonymous is now after the murky deep state collective called Q. Q, to the uninitiated, is a 4Chan poster who
Fading anonymous social network Yik Yak is laying off most of its employees
Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, first no
Secret is coming back
Secret, the anonymous sharing app developed by David Byttow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, looks to be on its way to resurrection. The app was part of a wave of anonymous apps like Whisper and YikYak but
MIT’s anonymous online communications protocol Riffle could beat Tor at its own game
Tor has been the go-to for anonymous communication online for years now — and that has made it one of the juiciest targets possible to the likes of the NSA and FBI. A new anonymizing protocol from M
Facebook’s Anonymous App Could Kill Trolls With Secret Identity
Wack-a-mole. That’s what it’s usually like fighting trolls, bullies, and spammers in anonymous communities. Ban them and they just start new accounts. That’s why the fact that Facebo
Online Anonymity Will Soon Be The Only Kind We Have
Anonymity: it's all the rage--Whisper, Secret--and it's rage-inducing. A Brazilian court has ruled that Secret must be removed from app stores there, and existing installs remotely wiped. The UK's Hou
Brazil Court Issues Injunction Against Secret And Calls For App To Be Remotely Wiped
A court in Brazil has ruled (via UOL) that Apple and Google must remove Secret, the anonymous social networking app, from their mobile software stores – and also from user devices where it’s a
For Better Or Worse, Anonymous Apps Allow Us To Be Ourselves Online Again
Anonymous apps like Secret and Whisper are all the rage right now and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. This feels like the inevitable reaction to all the major social networks wanting to own
Rumr Adds Real Identity And Picture Messaging To Its Anonymish Group Chats
Google Ventures-backed Rumr, an anonymish group messaging app which launched in the US. back in March, is adding a component of real identity into its quasi-anonymous messaging mix by letting users sw
Would We Trust A Secret Clone From Facebook?
Facebook could buy an anonymous sharing app like Secret, or build one, but would we use it? Facebook’s Snapchat clone Poke crashed and burned in part because people worried Facebook would spy on
Secret And Whisper Get Their Own Chinese Clones
Secret and Whisper have hit a dubious benchmark of success. Both have been cloned by developers in China. Secret posted about its Chinese duplicate this weekend, while Tech In Asia was the first Engli
Rumr, Group Messaging With An Anonymous Twist, Launches On iOS And Android
Say hey to rumr, a new messaging app that's vying to draw your attention away from all the other ways to say hey already in play. Rumr has been in the works for around half a year, raising an $800,000
Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism
When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of that, if any" when we spoke on stage at SXSW. Secret's user might disagree, and through
Secret Launches Bug Bounty Program For Hackers Who Find Vulnerabilities In Its App
<a target="_blank" href="http://secret.ly">Secret</a>, which has fast become everyone's favorite way to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/09/my-secret-life/">share "anonymish" thoughts</a> with
Vidme Brings Anonymous Video Sharing To Web, iPhone & Android
Following the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/08/fck-you-google-plus-song/">backlash</a> against YouTube's merging with Google+ for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.techradar.com/us/news/in