Websites Spying On You Via SSD Activity Should Receive a FROST-y Welcome
Websites love to spy on anyone who visits them, and are constantly coming up with new ways to do so as users find ways to block them. You might think this could…
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Tag: Privacy
Vizio Smart TV Owners Leading The Fight For Control Over Your Idiot Box
The legal fight between Vizio owners and Vizio itself started in 2021 and it seems Vizio's lawyers have finally run out of ways to delay the court case, as it will be…
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Quelle Surprise, Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out
A privacy search engine called webXray conducted an audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic, specifically checking for the presence of ad cookies that were dropped onto machines which had already…
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Meta’s Pixel and Yandex’s Metrica Trackers Scoff At Android’s Sandbox
Two app companies with widespread penetration in the smartphone market, Meta and Yandex, have been caught breaking Android's sandboxing and pass unique identifiers from your browser to their apps. This behaviour violates…
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Chrome Bails On Google’s Privacy Sandbox And OpenAI Wants To Buy It And Make It “AI-first”
If Chrome is your browser of choice then Alphabet would like to offer you several new reasons to reconsider that preference. The first is their planned implementation of Google's Privacy Sandbox, which…
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Is It Time To Change Up Your Web Browser And Maybe Your Search Engine?
When most people thing of web browsers, Chrome, Firefox and occasionally Edge are immediately mentioned. Chrome is fully controlled by a company that seems to have dropped a word from their old…
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Firefox’s Personal Data Protection Promise Is No More
Firefox have long had a promise to never sell your personal data and "to protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your...
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Hey Siri, Stop Accidentally Recording Me And Unintentionally Selling The Data You Mine … Or Else!
You and your friends aren't crazy for wondering why suspiciously targeted ads show up on your phones; your Siri enabled devices may well have recorded conversations you had no idea it did,…
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Smart TV’s Snooping Might Be Worse Than You Think
At this point most of us have given up on the fight against Smart TVs; like an automatic transmission a dumb TV isn't even an option you can pay extra for. We…
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Trouble Over Device Fingerprinting Brewing On The Apple App Store?
Apple has recently started requiring anyone developing iOS apps to justify their use APIs that can be used for device fingerprinting. These include things like File timestamp APIs, System boot...
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Mozilla Knows You’ve Been Naughty, Google, Amazon, Microsoft And Other Privacy Grinches
Just in time for the holiday season, Mozilla released a rather depressing list of insecure devices and services sold by a number of companies which now includes Google. The Privacy Not Included…
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Microsoft Changes The Terms On It’s Bing AI Services
If you make use of Microsoft's Bing AI Services you should be aware that the terms of use have changed, and not necessarily for the better. There are two of the terms…
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Yes, Your Amazon Echo Why You Are Getting Those Ads
A large team of researches from the University of Washington, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, and Northeastern University have published a paper titled, "Your Echos are heard: Tracking, profiling, and ad-targeting…
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Firefox Would Download A Cookie Jar, Lots Of Them Even!
Your Firefox won't look very different today but there has been a change behind the scenes which may please you. In order to mitigate the privacy concerns which the continual evolution of…
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Does Amazon’s Reply Ring True For You?
The EFF and other privacy minded individuals and organizations have had a few problems with Amazon's Ring products and it looks like that is not going to be resolved any time soon. …
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Mozilla Publishes Website Called Track THIS
Track THIS is a website that will give advertisers an interesting (and probably wrong) view of who you are. Once you select a persona, the website will launch a...
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The browser giveth and the browser taketh away
The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
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Google don’t Play that; apps will now need to notify users about data harvesting
Google has responded to the news stories posted last week at various news sites about the secretive data collection many apps on Google Play indulge in. Developers of Android apps...
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