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We've all done it. We're updating the operating system on our mobile phone or installing an app, and we lazily skim through the privacy policy or we don't bother to read it at all before blindly clicking "I agree."
Jan 29, 2020
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In an attempt to better track users and predict their search habits, Google Chrome has developed FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). FLoC provides visibility into user data to any website that desires this information.
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Advertisers and web trackers have been able to aggregate users' information across all of the websites they visit for decades, primarily by placing third-party cookies in users' browsers.
Dec 14, 2022
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Cookies. Fingerprinting. Tracking. Surveillance. Spyware. Geostalking.
Security
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.
Business
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois.
Jan 31, 2020
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Facebook said Tuesday that hackers "scraped" personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists.
Apr 7, 2021
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Google on Tuesday announced a new plan to stop using small files known as cookies to track people's web browsing habits, after its previous proposals were roundly criticized.
Jan 25, 2022
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The popular messaging app WhatsApp asked its some two billion users on Thursday to accept new terms that will allow it to share more information with its parent company Facebook and roll out advertising and e-commerce.
Jan 7, 2021
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Apple and Google fueled hopes for digital technology's promise against a fast-moving, invisible killer, announcing a joint effort to help public health agencies worldwide leverage smartphones to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apr 10, 2020
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