Ceinwen Thomas

Ceinwen focused on digital privacy, censorship, and surveillance, and has interviewed leading figures in tech.

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Your school is tracking your online activity—here’s what to do about...

In a single tectonic shift, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed schooling and education online to adjust to lockdowns and social-distancing...
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14 cybersecurity resolutions to stay private in 2023

With the new year almost upon us, it’s time to sit down and draw up a few New Year’s...
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5 things to do in isolation, whatever your holiday mood

Spend your socially distanced holidays the way you want, whether it’s with others or in your own company.
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9 mins

2021 Gift Guide: Best cybersecurity gifts for privacy protection

This post was originally published on December 11, 2020. In the whirlwind season of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales...
2 mins

With a new bill, Canada could get very tough on data...

If passed, the GDPR-style regulations would include some of the heaviest fines in the world for privacy violations.
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2 mins

Canada’s version of the NSA is just as bad

So you thought the NSA was shady. Turns out Canada’s surveillance agency exercises egregious online monitoring, too.
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3 mins

A less-invasive Covid-19 tracker: Sniffer dogs

Dogs are one of the most low-tech forms of surveillance around—and now a welcome addition in the effort to control the virus’s spread.
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3 mins

Voters chose their digital rights on Election Day

Residents of California, Massachusetts, and Maine had their say over facial recognition, data gathering, and the right to repair vehicles.
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3 mins

Announcing the winner of the 2020 Future of Privacy Scholarship

The 2020 ExpressVPN essay competition has a winner. Read the top entry and our interview with the scholarship recipient.
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Limiting the president’s power to shut down the internet

Right now, it’s alarmingly easy for the U.S. president to make the internet go dark. A new bill aims to change that.

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