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February 18, 2022

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.

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October 25, 2021

Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers

Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations

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October 17, 2021

Is the Cookie Web Tracker Dying?

The internet’s original data collection tool is still ubiquitous, even as the web moves away from it

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October 13, 2021

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.

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September 23, 2021

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.

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September 21, 2021

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.

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September 19, 2021

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

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September 8, 2021

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 […]

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September 7, 2021

Latest bits on privacy and cybersecurity #10

Collection of articles, documents and research on data privacy and cyber-security that caught my eye.

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March 25, 2021

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…

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February 18, 2021

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.

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February 7, 2021

Looking back at data protection in 2020

Looking over EU’s data protection landscape in 2020 and what 2021 can bring.

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