Roomba Maker Wants to Sell Maps of Your Home to Google, Amazon
One of the problems with covering the decline of privacy in the digital age is the very concept that people should have the right to control how their information is bought, sold…
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Shockingly, Only Google Likes Google's Tracking Cookie Alternative
…Eliminating these cookies is a major privacy boost for the internet, and Google pledged its so-called "privacy sandbox" would not feature any similar technology . FLoC is Google's alternative to cookies…
How to visualize behavior tracking cookies with a Firefox add-on
…Last year, both the US and EU decided that privacy on the web in general, and tracking cookies in specific, should be taken seriously. As a result, both Chrome and Internet Explorer…
Microsoft won't enable 'Do Not Track' in next-gen Spartan browser
…Most large companies simply ignore the header, and the entire point of DNT was that it was a voluntary buy-in, a collaboration between privacy advocates and advertising companies facilitated through the…
Your Health Data Isn’t Safe Post-Roe, Even If Some Apps Promise It Is
…Stardust, a period tracking smartphone app that advertises itself as “women-owned, privacy-first,” quickly came up with a “hands off our bodies, hands off our data” marketing campaign over the weekend…
GCHQ, NSA secretly collected webcam images from millions of Yahoo users
…Time to bust out the masking tape? Yahoo has understandably voiced strong denunciations of the program, calling it a "whole new level" of violation of their users' privacy. Many are comparing the…
Microsoft's Revamped Windows 11 Search Prioritizes Local Files Over Web Results
…A new toggle in Settings under Privacy & Security > Search lets users turn off web results and Store suggestions entirely. Finally, app searches should now be more forgiving of typos and partial names…
Snowden-approved: The 'Citizenfour' hacker's toolkit
…The information that Snowden leaked two years ago continues to reverberate today, and it kicked off renewed interest in data security, privacy, and anonymity. Based on the closing credits in the movie…
Google's war on spam and how encryption could finally win it - for the spammers
…Right away, there was a rush on cryptography software, which immediately threatened the online status quo; privacy software might just as accurately be called "anti-analytics" or "anti-big-data" software, and…
Google Challenges Apple’s AI Missteps With Local Gemma AI for Mac
…The app is said to offer privacy improvements over online Gemma access, as processing occurs locally, keeping prompts and responses on the user's device. After downloading the app, no internet connection…