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Detective reveals why it’s so difficult to recover stolen phones

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A top detective has revealed that despite state-of-the-art tracking technology that allows people to see where thieves who have stolen their phones have taken them, police officers are often unable to recover the valuables. The scourge of phone stealing in British cities has come to the fore in recent months, with countless videos showing criminals … Read more

The telephone tap: free VPNs are a danger to your privacy

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The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy, and surveillance news. To receive it in your inbox, subscribe here. Free VPN apps endanger children’s privacy, researchers say. Getty Virtual private networks, or VPNs, are used by Internet users around the world to encrypt their web traffic and hide their IP addresses. Often they … Read more