The data game: what Amazon knows about you and how to stop it
The tech giant has many ways of gathering information about its users’ activity – from Prime to Alexa. So what can you do to keep your life private?
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Online Trackers Can Detect 80% of Users’ Browsing History
The report found the practice of online tracking is far more pervasive than previously realized.
TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app
YouTube and TikTok track users’ personal data more than other social media apps, a recent study says. YouTube mostly keeps the data for itself, while TikTok allows more third parties to collect it.
Grindr to appeal Norwegian fine for privacy violations
The gay dating app says it’s being singled out for practices that are widespread.
TikTok Can Circumvent Apple and Google Privacy Protections
The popular Beijing-based app has “carte blanche” in gathering users’ data, cypersecurity experts say.
Top U.S. Websites Run Afoul of European Data Privacy Law
Research by Zendata found that many leading U.S. websites have failed to abide by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
EU privacy watchdog urges ban on Pegasus
The European Data Protection Supervisor has called for a ban on the spyware tool Pegasus to protect people’s fundamental rights.
China tech firm develops controversial IT system that can predict whether an employee is about to resign
A company is developing a system to predict whether an employee is about to resign by spying on browsing job recruitment pages and sending job application emails.
MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads
MoviePass is relaunching as a web3-style application where users earn credits to go to the movies by watching ads.
Researcher ‘reverses’ redaction, extracts words from pixelated image
A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique.
Clearview AI predicts 100 billion photos will give it worldwide facial recognition ability
The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it’s on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year.
Google Plans to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android Phones
The Alphabet unit plans to continue support of the existing approach for at least two years as it follows Apple in challenging Facebook.