Brave filed a complaint to the European Commission against 27 Member States for failing to adequately implement the GDPR by under resourcing their DPAs. Two years after the GDPR was first applied, the GDPR is now in danger of failing. Today, Brave reveals why: the governments of EU Member States have not given data protection authorities …
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From a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are qualitatively different from the other browsers studied. Both send persistent identifiers that can be used to link requests (and associated IP address/location) to backend servers. Edge also sends the unique hardware identifier of the device to Microsoft, and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to …
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Nearly all councils in the UK permit at least one company to learn about the behaviour of people visiting their websites. People seeking information about disability, poverty, drugs and alcoholism services are profiled by data brokers on some council websites. 6.9 million people are served by councils that allow data broker LiveRamp to track people …