Headlines focus on privacy solutions and options, ranging from a Raspberry Pi–based alternative for Ring cameras to VPN and privacy-focused app alternatives. In parallel, there’s legal/regulatory pressure around privacy breaches and compliance—plus debate about which option is better for privacy.
Headlines focus on privacy solutions and options, ranging from a Raspberry Pi–based alternative for Ring cameras to VPN and privacy-focused app alternatives. In parallel, there’s legal/regulatory pressure around privacy breaches and compliance—plus debate about which option is better for privacy.
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Microsoft's new Surface Laptop for Business (8th Edition) has a privacy screen, and it uses different underlying tech than other laptops. Here's how it all works, including how the tech got its start
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HP Sure View: World's first integrated privacy screen - YouTube Watch On Surface is far from the first laptop to feature an integrated privacy screen. HP's Sure View method made its debut in 2016 on the EliteBook 840 G3 and EliteBook 1040 G3, and we actually have a hands-on video with the original implementation, which I've embedded above. Blast from the pastThe top comment on the 2016 Sure View video reads, "They already have this. It's called screens with crappy viewing angles..." Sometimes it's nice to be reminded of how far display tech has come in the last decade! Like any good privacy s
Surface Laptop 8's privacy screen isn't like the others — here's how the feature evolved in HP, Lenovo, and Dell laptopsDell's SafeScreen arrived in 2019 for select Latitude 7000 business laptops, and its implementation was almost identical to Lenovo's and HP's. Just hit a shortcut on your keyboard to enable the privacy screen and carry on working. However, the inner workings were different from the first Sure View generation. Dell chose to rely entirely on the display's backlight to obscure the picture. Although it cut down on viewing angles and also didn't sap battery life as much, it also affected the real user sitting head-on. Like with HP and Lenovo, Dell's SafeScreen has evolved to be easier on the eyes a
Surface Laptop 8's privacy screen isn't like the others — here's how the feature evolved in HP, Lenovo, and Dell laptopsImage 1 of 2 Our Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Rubino, was among the first in the world to test the new Surface Laptop 8 privacy screen, and he shared some insights into why it's different from other laptop implementations. As Rubino explains, Surface takes a similar approach to what Samsung did with its Galaxy S26 Ultra. The best part about Microsoft/Samsung's approach is that the privacy screen doesn't harm brightness, color reproduction, or contrast. Rubino tested 100% sRGB, 89% AdobeRGB, and 100% P3 color reproduction using a colorimeter with and without the privacy screen enabled. It was also a
Surface Laptop 8's privacy screen isn't like the others — here's how the feature evolved in HP, Lenovo, and Dell laptopsGoogle is the biggest and, arguably, the best out there. According to Lead Public Policy Manager at DuckDuckGo (a rival search engine), Aurélien Mähl, that's because of the company's scale — a market share of over 90%. "We are building our own index step by step, and we face a huge barrier in catching up, given Google's scale,” he told TechRadar. “It’s something that is simply not feasible given how the market is constructed, and intervention is necessary." Mähl argues that liberating Google’s search data would not only generate market growth but also improve accuracy for rare queries, given t
‘Google is not collaborative and not in the spirit of complying with this regulation’ – can the EU Commission strong-arm Google into levelling the playing field of the search engine market, and is this really in the interest of your privacy?