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Lawmakers Look To Stop the Feds From Secretly Buying Your Private Data
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
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TikTok sued for billions over use of children’s data
The case is being brought on behalf of millions of children by England’s former children’s commissioner.
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New Bill Would Ban Clearview and Warrantless Location Data Purchases
The sweeping bill has support from both Democrats and Republicans, and will address multiple forms of surveillance.
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Brace yourselves. Facebook has a new mega-leak on its hands
Facebook Email Search v1.0 can process 5 million email addresses per day, researcher says.
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Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’
Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’ | ZDNet
Updated: More scraping incidents are “expected” in the future.
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Cryptocurrencies Are the Next Frontier for the Surveillance State
Countries are launching digital currencies to rival Bitcoin—and opening up new ways to snoop on their citizens in the process.
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WordPress to automatically disable Google FLoC on websites
WordPress announced today that they plan on treating Google’s new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and plans to block it by default on WordPress sites.
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Mozilla will remove Leanplum tracking from Firefox for Android and iOS - gHacks Tech News
Mozilla will remove the Leanplum integration of its mobile web browser Firefox for Android and iOS soon.
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Blacklight: this site will scan your favourite websites and show you the specific user-tracking technologies they're using to harvest your data
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Don't be fooled: Google's latest announcement on third-party cookies doesn't mean it will stop tracking you. We’ve built a new site to tell you whether or not you are a test subject in Google’s latest... View More
Am I FLoCed?
This page will check whether Google Chrome’s experimental new ad-targeting technology is enabled in your browser.
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