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Yael is an investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking and mass surveillance. She currently works at Consumer Reports managing Security Planner, a free, easy-to-use guide to staying safer online. Yael also freelanced for over a decade with bylines at Ars Technica, Insider, Slate, The Intercept, OneZero, Popular Science, Vice, Wirecutter, WIRED and other publications.