How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rightsContinue Reading

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book

It was Meta itself that first told me about the new book attacking Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the allegedly bankrupt morals of their company. On March 7, a Meta PR person contacted me to ask if I’d heard about Careless People, a presumed takedown of the company that wasContinue Reading

Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts

Once a woman was mentioned, her privacy was permanently compromised. Users frequently shared social media handles, which led other members to contact her—soliciting intimate images or sending disparaging texts. Anonymity can be a protective tool for women navigating online harassment. But it can also be embraced by bad actors whoContinue Reading

The Continued Threat of Online Radicalization in Malaysia

In 2024, the Malaysian security services carried out more than 20 terrorism-related arrests in the country. These included two inter-state operations in June that involved the arrests of individuals in the states of Johor, Kelantan, Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Perak. The recent arrests in the country underscore an evolvingContinue Reading

Are You Lonely? Adopt a New Family on Facebook Today

But, soon enough, she figured she needed to move on. “I knew I had gotten through it before,” she says. “I’m not going to live my life being sad, and there are people out there who want relationships with people like me.” That’s when she found Surrogate Grandparents USA. KarenContinue Reading