“I believe people are smart and some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them. Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data.” Steve Jobs All Things …
There is a large ecosystem of four key players that is trading our data and our attention for revenues, at least in the West. As Apple vies for the position of trusted service and hardware provider, Google is ring-fencing the cookie game into its own proprietary stack. IMHO Facebook has screwed its customers and hopefully …
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Apple’s recent announcement that iOS14 would issue a real and honest consent warning when you download a new mobile app. Would you say “yes” to allowing an app or brand permission to “track you across apps and websites owned by other companies?” Neither will 99% of consumers. This is actually a genius move by Apple. …
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How long would it take to read the Terms of Service Agreements of popular online services See the full infographic at VisualCapitalist
Apple’s iOS 13 update, released in September, includes regular reminders when apps are sucking up a user’s location data. The pop-up gives a user a chance to choose from the following options: allowing data collection at all times, or only when the app is open — or only one time. Four months in, ad tech …
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“Lots of the companies that have gotten wealthy from selling us data-collecting devices — or from collecting our data — have learned to talk the talk on privacy. But they’re very often defining privacy in ways that serve their own interests first.” iPhone apps were beaming my personal information to all sorts of tracking companies …
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‘A federal trade regulator has condemned the largest digital companies for their privacy records, arguing that it is currently “untenable” for consumers to understand and control collection of their own data.’ ‘“Even if consumers can walk through a privacy check-up, the amount of information that you have to process, to figure out what is happening …
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