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FB has access to massive personal information about its users. But this is not the whole story."We rely on data signals from user activity on websites and services we do
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New: Perhaps the most comprehensive report on how mobile apps secretly share location data with companies most people never heard of, who then sell it to all kinds of interested
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The Norwegian data protection authority plans to fine the dating app Grindr €9.6 million for sharing personal data with advertising/data firms like MoPub, Xandr and OpenX without a GDPR legal
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Regardless of the announced update, what kind of personal information does Whatsapp currently share with FB, according to its website?- account+device info- transaction data- service-related information- information on how you
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Without much doubt, a full Section 230 *repeal* would be extremely disruptive (if at all possible b/c of USMCA).But everyone who has been opposing any *reform* for years, and who
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Predicio, a French data broker who was caught selling location data harvested from ordinary smartphone apps to the US defense contractor Venntel, also provides 'foot traffic data' in partnership with
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Microsoft Teams for Education knows what students are doing late at night.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlIkZfCkzs It also knows what students are doing early in the morning, at individual level.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-vIjXbQB
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Today's digital advertising based on selling user data to the highest bidder has been called the 'largest data breach ever', and yes:Two firms who sell targeted+mass surveillance to governments are
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Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.A new feature to calculate 'productivity
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When the data industry is talking about sharing 'anonymized' profile data:They do indeed not share email addresses, for example. But they share hashed versions of it, and they all use
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If you visit 450 pages on 15 major health, education and news sites, 1121 third parties set 891772 cookies. Visiting health sites first maximizes the chance that data brokers can
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