How Signal's New Encrypted Backups Work

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These Weather Apps Actually Care About Your Privacy

Weather apps are notoriously easy to build and extremely difficult to police. Any developer can whip up an interface from a template, add a weather API (there are loads of them), and put it up on the App Store. That “innocent” weather app can then serve you ads, track your usage, and sell your data,

There Are Right and Wrong Ways to Share Your Passwords

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