Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Algorithms
Algorithms are increasingly employed by government agencies – from informing criminal sentencing and detecting unemployment fraud to prioritizing child abuse cases and distributing health benefits.
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Is Momentum Shifting Toward a Ban on Behavioral Advertising?
Targeted advertising based on people’s online behavior has long been the business model that underwrites the internet.
Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers
Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations
Is the Cookie Web Tracker Dying?
The internet’s original data collection tool is still ubiquitous, even as the web moves away from it
Latest bits on privacy and cybersecurity #11
Collection of articles, documents and research on data privacy and cyber-security that caught my eye. Hope, you’ll find them useful and interesting.
Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data
The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform.
How To Prevent Data Mining and Protect Your Privacy
Even though data mining has its fair share of bright sides, wrong information in the wrong hands can lead to quite a few security issues. Hence, protecting your online privacy is of utmost importance.
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not Sell Your Data”?
Experts say the privacy promise—ubiquitous in online services and apps—obscures the truth about how companies use personal data
How Private Is My VPN?
VPNs promise privacy, but The Markup found their apps and websites full of trackers By: Alfred Ng For the last […]
Latest bits on privacy and cybersecurity #10
Collection of articles, documents and research on data privacy and cyber-security that caught my eye.
Instant Messaging Apps that values Privacy and Security
If you intend to quit WhatsApp for another social media application, here is a list of applications that are secure, and you should totally try out…
10 GDPR fines and what to learn from them
I selected 10 from just December 2020 and January 2021 which were biggest or most interesting.