How much …? The rise of dynamic and personalised pricing
Cheaper croissants in the morning is one thing; being charged according to your credit rating is another. As Black Friday […]
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We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself
I led Facebook’s efforts to fix privacy problems on its developer platform in advance of its 2012 initial public offering. […]
EFF launches Panopticlick 3.0
Today we’re launching a new version of Panopticlick , an EFF site which audits your browser privacy protection. Conceived to […]
IAB Europe presents industry consent mechanism for meeting challenges under the GDPR
IAB Europe presented a new technical standard to support the digital advertising ecosystem in meeting requirements relating to user consent […]
Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools
Yale University’s Privacy Lab using research to call on developers and Google ‘for increased transparency into privacy and security practice’. […]
How to manage risks of data breaches under GDPR
For many organisations, the headline news from the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) has been the substantially more significant sanctions […]
Privacy Enhancing Technologies – A Survey of Tools and Techniques
Research paper prepared by the Technology Analysis Division of OPC about Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Source: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/research/explore-privacy-research/2017/pet_201711/
Google Docs Glitch That Locked Out Users Underscores Privacy Concerns
Some users received alerts on Tuesday that they had violated Google’s terms of service, and were subsequently stopped from accessing […]
Sex toy company admits to recording users’ remote sex sessions, calls it a ‘minor bug’
Hong Kong-based sex toy company Lovense’s remote control vibrator app (Lovense Remote) recorded a use session without their knowledge. An […]
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may […]
Nielsen will use Gracenote’s smart TV data for ad targeting
Nielsen is expanding its Marketing Cloud by plugging in smart TV viewership data from Gracenote. Kelly Abcarian, senior vice president […]
It’s time to end the secrecy and opacity of social media
A simple proposal for making social media more transparent. Source: It’s time to end the secrecy and opacity of social […]