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Facebook released a statement today about another data breach. According to the statement, Facebook’s engineering team found the latest issue on September 25. The issue is said to have affected around 50 million accounts, and Facebook has taken action on another 40 million accounts that Read More The post Another Facebook Data Breach; Affecting More Than 50 Million Accounts appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .

We’re excited to announce a new addition to our product line: Privacy Toolkit by Search Encrypt. This new tool helps protect your privacy while also giving a look into the common privacy pitfalls so many websites fall into. Tracker Detection & Protection Privacy Toolkit by Read More The post Introducing Privacy Toolkit by Search Encrypt appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .

Facebook may have just gotten itself into more trouble about how it collects and uses people’s data. Kashmir Hill, a senior reporter for Gizmodo, originally reported the issue. Hill ran a Facebook ad specifically targeting a single user, a computer science professor named Alan Read More The post Facebook Is Using Your Private Information To Target Ads…Even If You Didn’t Give It To Them appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .

Many of the websites that millions of people visit every day collect data about their visitors. This puts both the websites and the users at risk of losing their data to some unwanted third party. Beyond a hack or data breach, how these websites Read More The post Privacy Issues with The Internet’s Most Popular Websites appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .

Contents: What Is Privacy? Who Is Collecting Information About You? What Exactly Are They Collecting? How Long Will Your Information Be Stored? Who Is It Shared With? Can You Opt Out? Can We Control Our Information? How Is Your Information Used Against You? Daniel Read More The post Why You Should Take Your Privacy Seriously appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .

Apple is looked to as one of the good guys in the fight for privacy. Many of the other big tech companies have business models that rely on tracking as much data as possible from as many of their users as possible. This is Read More The post How To Limit Tracking on iOS Devices appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .

If you’re thinking about removing Search Encrypt’s Chrome or Firefox extension, think again about the data you would be handing over to big search engines without Search Encrypt. Search Encrypt redirects your searches from search engines like Google to our private search engine that doesn’t Read More The post Should You Remove Search Encrypt’s Extension? appeared first on Search Encrypt Blog .