Since this summer, new users are now being tracked to Google’s fullest potential unless they opt-out. Google has bought many tech companies over the last … Google is now tracking your private, personally identifiable information from all sources possibleRead more
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Google, Facebook and many others are coming for your health data
Last week, Google announced that it would be buying Fitbit, valuing the 12-year-old company at $2.1 billion. Many have seen this as an attempt to … Google, Facebook and many others are coming for your health dataRead more
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Facebook Employees ‘labels’ posts by hand
Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India has ploughed through millions of Facebook Inc photos, status … Facebook Employees ‘labels’ posts by handRead more
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Facebook emails reveal discussions over call log consent
Facebook employees discussed how to minimise the amount of consent needed to collect user data, according to the latest tranche of emails released by the … Facebook emails reveal discussions over call log consentRead more
Posted inCartoon / Facebook / Multimedia / Privacy
With Facebook, everybody can betray Jesus
— source datapocalypse.net | Mar 25, 2016
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Internet history can be used for “reidentification”
A recent research paper has reaffirmed that our internet history can be reliably used to identify us. The research was conducted by Sarah Bird, Ilana … Internet history can be used for “reidentification”Read more
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Browser fingerprinting ‘more prevalent on the web now than ever before’
With major web browsers now including privacy protections against cookie-based tracking, there’s been a rise in the use of fingerprinting – and researchers now say … Browser fingerprinting ‘more prevalent on the web now than ever before’Read more
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Privacy concerns during a pandemic
In his now-legendary dissenting judgment, delivered at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, Justice H.R. Khanna, invoking Justice Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote … Privacy concerns during a pandemicRead more
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DuckDuckGo’s privacy abuses
[I now uses https://www.startpage.com for searching. not sure when they will become corrupt.] There are substantial privacy and civil liberty issues with DuckDuckGo. Here they … DuckDuckGo’s privacy abusesRead more
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French court upholds ruling fining Google for data protection violations
The highest administrative court in France on Friday upheld a previous ruling ordering Google to pay a fine of around $56 million for not being … French court upholds ruling fining Google for data protection violationsRead more