A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. Smaller countries are seizing on […]
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EU Advocate General Issues Opinion on Consent for Cookies and Intersection with the GDPR
On March 21, 2019, Advocate General Szpunar released his opinion in the Planet49 case, currently pending before the Court of […]
EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites
EU governments are allowing more than 100 advertising companies, including Google and Facebook, to surreptitiously track citizens across sensitive public […]
How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
A decade ago, a simple browser setting – called Do Not Track – promised to make it easy to protect […]
Chrome will soon make it harder for websites to spy on you
A new feature coming to Chrome in the near future will allow users to limit the kind of data certain […]
Second rise for the ‘Do Not Track’
In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to […]
How Taylor Swift showed us the scary future of facial recognition
Surveillance at concerts is just the beginning, as fears grow around an unregulated, billion-dollar industry. Taylor Swift raised eyebrows late […]
Lawsuit against weather app sign of things to come?
Last week , the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney, Mike Feuer, filed a complaint against The Weather Channel […]
DuckDuckGo denies using fingerprinting to track its users
Responding to a forum post that accused it of “fingerprinting users”, privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo says that fears are unfounded […]
Wearables in The Arena: The Shifting Legal Landscape Governing Fitness Trackers in Professional Sports
The use of wearable technology (colloquially known as “wearables”) has been on the radar of athletes, sponsors, sports teams and […]
Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people […]
How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps
If you quit Facebook or never joined because of its data collecting practices the odds are good the social network […]