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Security & Privacy Category

Supporting The Web Privacy Community

Jun 13, 2019

Brave is a proud member of the Web privacy community. Brave relies on the terrific work of the Tor Project, EasyList/EasyPrivacy communities, Disconnect, and the uBlock Origin/uMatrix projects, among many others, to protect Brave users’ privacy. Brave contributes to...

Requirement Analysis of Decentralized Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs)

May 23, 2019

Despite some advantages over VPNs, current solutions for dVPNs lack strong privacy and performance guarantees. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. In this blogpost we...

Brave’s Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal

May 9, 2019

Web Standards and User Privacy: Brave’s Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal By Brave employees Pete Snyder, privacy researcher, Pranjal Jumde, security engineer, Tom Lowenthal, product manager for privacy and security, and Brian Clifton, development manager for...

Blockchain MarTech Industry Grows by 1,218% in 18 months

Feb 13, 2019

Never Stop Marketing Research and Brave Software Collaborate to Help Enterprise Marketers Harness Blockchain Potential Rapidly New York and San Francisco, February 13, 2019 ---- Never Stop Marketing Research, the leading research firm on the intersection of blockchain...

Script Blocking Exceptions Update

Feb 12, 2019

We have received many questions about script blocking exceptions being reported by several news outlets and blogs. This conversation is about script loading, not tracking. Loading a script from an edge-cache does not track a user without third-party cookies or...

Brave Previews Opt-in Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel

Jan 15, 2019

New online advertising model upends current systemwith 70% revenue share to users and privacy by designToday we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and testers using the latest desktop browser build for macOS and...

Brave passes 5.5 million monthly active users and features over 28,000 Verified Publishers

Jan 5, 2019

2018 highlights include 5X MAU growth, major product redesigns, and key partnershipsAs we look ahead to 2019 and our upcoming Brave 1.0 release with Brave Ads that will reward users for their attention with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), we wanted to share some of our...

Brave requests European Commission antitrust examination of online ad market

Dec 4, 2018

Investigation needed to stop anticompetitive practices that hurt publishers, restrict innovation, and limit consumer choice.

38 businesses and organizations urge European Governments to break ePrivacy deadlock

Dec 3, 2018

Brave and a coalition of more than 30 businesses and organizations urges European Governments to break the deadlock on the ePrivacy Regulation in an open letter.

French regulator shows deep flaws in IAB’s consent framework and RTB

Nov 20, 2018

French regulator’s decision against Vectaury confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent, and illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfully gather millions of people’s personal data from the online advertising “real time bidding system” (RTB).

Brave calls for a “United States GDPR” in letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Nov 6, 2018

Brave presents the case for a US federal privacy law that builds on the GDPR, protecting innovation, interoperability, and supporting US leadership.

AMA with Sampson

Nov 1, 2018

Welcome to the sixth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

AMA with Yan Zhu

Oct 19, 2018

Welcome to the fifth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust

Oct 10, 2018

This is Brave’s response to a call for stakeholder input from the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager.

AMA with David Temkin

Oct 5, 2018

Welcome to the fourth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States

Oct 1, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Civic to Offer Secure Identity Verification Services on the Brave Publisher Platform

Sep 21, 2018

Brave-verified Publishers with Civic Reusable KYC will be able to collect earned BATs with their own Ethereum wallets Civic, the global digital identity leader, and Brave, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising...

Fast and Private Brave Browser Chooses Qwant as its Default Search Engine in France and Germany

Sep 13, 2018

PARIS, France, and SAN FRANCISCO, USA -- September 13th, 2018 - Brave, which combines an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Qwant, the European search engine that respects the privacy of its users, announced...

Regulatory complaint concerning massive, web-wide data breach by Google and other “ad tech” companies under Europe’s GDPR

Sep 12, 2018

Dublin, Ireland and London, United Kingdom,...

AMA with Johnny Ryan

Sep 6, 2018

Welcome to the third post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series, which will run until January 2019, is twofold: to give fans...

Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private

Aug 29, 2018

This ongoing research is being conducted by Ruba Abu-Salma, a Ph.D student in Computer Science from University College London (UCL), and Brave’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Ben Livshits. The final findings will be submitted as a paper in the next several weeks....

AMA with Brian Bondy

Aug 23, 2018

On August 16th, the BAT Community successfully kicked off an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) series with CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich. The series, scheduled to run from August 2018 through January 2019, features several different guests from the Brave team every month and...

AMA with Brendan Eich

Aug 17, 2018

On August 16th, BAT Community hosted the first in an upcoming series of AMAs (Ask Me Anything!) with Brendan Eich in the r/BATProject subreddit. Over the course of the AMA, Brendan answered a mix of pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors about Brave and the...

Understanding Redirection-Based Tracking

Aug 10, 2018

This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Peter Snyder and Ben Livshits. It is the third in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly looking to improve and automate the privacy...

Brave Browser iOS App Now Offers DuckDuckGo Search in Private Tabs

Aug 3, 2018

We recently partnered with DuckDuckGo to improve privacy on the web by integrating a new DuckDuckGo search feature within Private Tabs in Brave’s desktop browser. We’re excited to announce that this feature is now available to Brave iOS (version 1.6.3) users to give...

Into the Blockchain: Brave with MetaMask

Jul 26, 2018

The decentralized web is there for exploring. Trails are being blazed with decentralized applications built on the Ethereum blockchain, with the MetaMask extension providing a bridge to explore and handle decentralized applications (Dapps) from a web browser....

The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules

Jul 18, 2018

This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Antoine Vastel, Peter Snyder, and Ben Livshits. It is the second in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly looking to improve and...

Brave Passes 3 Million Monthly Active Users and Makes Top 10 List in the Play Store in 21 Countries

Jul 12, 2018

Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.

Brave Introduces Beta of Private Tabs with Tor for Enhanced Privacy while Browsing

Jun 28, 2018

Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.

Their connection, your data.

Mar 30, 2017

Why should users care about privacy, and protecting their data from being collected and sold by third parties? To put it simply, your digital data trail is the evidence of your human presence online. Your data is valuable, private, and most important, it’s yours. You...

Brave’s Response to the NAA: A Better Deal for Publishers

Apr 7, 2016

The NAA has sent a letter to Brave Software filled with false assertions, indicating that they have fundamentally misunderstood Brave. Here are a few misconceptions we’d like to clear up: Brave is not, as the NAA asserts, “replac[ing] publishers' ads on the...

How Brave Works for You

Jan 27, 2016

Last week I wrote: “Brave is the only approach to the Web that puts users first in ownership and control of their browsing data by blocking trackers by default, with no exceptions.” Our premise is that the Web requires ads for much of its funding, but not the poorly...