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November 25, 2021

DuckDuckGo Wants to Stop Apps From Tracking You on Android

The privacy-focused tech company’s latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone.

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November 22, 2021

LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying

Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages.

November 22, 2021

Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data

Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.

November 11, 2021

Top UK court blocks legal action against Google over internet tracking

Campaigners sought to sue for £3bn damages on behalf of millions of iPhone users in England and Wales.

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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 18, 2021

Publisher and agency executives scrutinize email-based universal IDs

Email-based universal IDs may improve upon the cookie in some ways, but relying upon the email address can introduce privacy concerns.

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October 11, 2021

London’s Met Police Buying Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology

The UK’s Metropolitan Police Service has been authorised to buy and use retrospective facial recognition technology.

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October 11, 2021

In Venice, High-Tech Tracking of Tourists Stirs Alarm

Can cellphone data and surveillance cameras help restore the city’s old-world charm, or just destroy what magic remains?

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October 8, 2021

Privacy-First Marketing Isn’t Always Easy – But It’s 100% Worth The Fight

If your marketing team’s attention is focused on finding a direct replacement for third-party cookies and digital IDs, you are fighting the wrong battle.

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October 6, 2021

How to Find ‘Stalkerware’ on Your Devices

These spyware apps record your conversations, location and everything you type, all while camouflaged as a calculator or calendar.

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October 5, 2021

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.

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October 4, 2021

Ad trackers continue to collect Europeans’ data without consent under the GDPR

On average, 500,000 ad impressions served per day earlier this year contradicted the data-collection choices people made as required under Europe’s privacy law.

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