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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Dark patterns show up all over the web, nudging people to subscribe to newsletters, add items to their carts, or sign up for services. But, says says Colin Gray, a human-computer interaction researcher at Purdue University, they’re particularly insidious “when you’re deciding what privacy rights to give away, what data you’re willing to part with.” …
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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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How long would it take to read the Terms of Service Agreements of popular online services See the full infographic at VisualCapitalist
Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people would opt for the latter. While some fiercely object to any threat to our privacy, the unremitting popularity of Facebook — even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — suggests that most people are happy to …
“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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Facebook gathers information about what you buy — both online and in physical stores — in order to serve you ads that correspond to those purchases.The practice is one of many ways Facebook leverages its wealth of user data to offer advertisers tools to target specific audiences.This is a breakdown of how Facebook learns about …
“Some of the UK’s most popular health websites are sharing people’s sensitive data — including medical symptoms, diagnoses, drug names and menstrual and fertility information — with dozens of companies around the world, ranging from ad-targeting giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Oracle, to lesser-known data-brokers and adtech firms like Scorecard and OpenX. Using …
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