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After Snowden leaks, daily adoption rate of PGP encryption triples

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Why Facebook’s new Swedish data center raises major privacy red flags

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How Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning really stack up

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Can whistleblower Edward Snowden gain asylum in Iceland?

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After media scrutiny, Reddit updates privacy policy

<p>Fidel Martinez is a web culture and politics reporter. His work for the Daily Dot focused on Reddit and YouTube.</p>


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New social network uses numbers, not names, for user IDs

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How Facebook targets you with advertising

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Instagram’s new mapping feature leads to privacy concerns

<p>Based in Montreal, Kris Holt has been writing about technology and web culture since 2010. He writes for Engadget and Tech News World, and his byline has also appeared in Paste, Salon, International Business Times, Mashable, and elsewhere.</p>


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