Clearview AI has apparently mined the internet for billions of photos of people, largely from social media sites and the open web, In theory, you should not have to worry about your social media posts being used in such a fashion. Whether or not posting an image online means you have implicitly consented to the …
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Most Americans are worried about how companies and governments will use technology like facial recognition and encryption, and how it will affect their data and security, according to a new survey from VPN provider ExpressVPN. “The biggest takeaway,” Li said, “is that Americans have reached a breaking point where they’re uncomfortable with companies liberally collecting …
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Predictions: Channel attribution will stumble as tracking limitations break measurability and show artificial performance fluctuations. Campaign efficiency will lose clarity as retargeting efficacy diminishes and audience alignment blurs. Customer experience will falter as marketers lose control of frequency capping and creative sequencing. Worth reading this post, it covers a lot of ground regarding Cookies, Intelligent Tracking Protection and …
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…we should really enforce the one particular aspects that I truly believe in which is making these, you know, private companies, believe that they have no choice but to have privacy and trust, as a key differentiator in the in their business they really have to invest in that they really have to put the …
“The future of privacy is likely to be complicated. For starters, no one can even agree what “privacy” means today. Some argue its first obituary was written 21 years ago when Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, pronounced: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That may, technically speaking, be true. A different …
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The shocking thing about the obvious and growing loss of privacy is how unconcerned everyone is. It’s worth saying again: every time we blog, tweet, post, rideshare, order from Amazon, rent an Airbnb – or anything that leaves a digital trail – we feed what Shoshana Zuboff calls “surveillance capitalism,” which is the monetization of data captured through monitoring people’s movements …
“Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?” A much needed paradigm shift. The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
According to a new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC). The adtech industry extends across different media, including websites, smart devices and mobile apps, but the NCC chose to focus on how the industry works when it comes to mobile apps. They reviewed 10 Apps: Grindr (dating), OkCupid (dating), Tinder (dating), Clue (period tracking), …
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GDPR and CCPA is the baseline for consumer privacy, Graham Williamson says that “…managing user consent will not only become more nuanced i.e. controlling specific service entitlements for which a user agrees to contribute their data, it may also be required to manage a transaction i.e. a value exchange in which the value of the …