WordPress core contributor proposes treating Google FLoC as a security vulnerability
Let's opt every WordPress site out of FLoC. Nice idea, but security update? Really?
19 Apr 2021
Articles about Privacy
Google's FLoC flies into headwinds as internet ad industry braces for instability
Analysis Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult
17 Apr 2021
What the FLoC? Browser makers queue up to decry Google's latest ad-targeting initiative as invasive tracking
Updated 'Federated Learning of Cohorts' groups users together and is already being tested in Chrome
14 Apr 2021
Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled
App's developers believe they can manage potential abuse
09 Apr 2021
Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database
Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiant's rules
09 Apr 2021
Privacy activist Max Schrems claims Google Advertising ID on Android is unlawful, files complaint in France
Tracking ID placed on mobile device without informed consent, says campaign group
07 Apr 2021
Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users
Google comes in late too
02 Apr 2021
Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study
Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say
01 Apr 2021
Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard
Security and privacy still left to fix, preferably before launch
31 Mar 2021
Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo
Privacy don't like it, block the tracker, block the tracker
30 Mar 2021
Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website
Session monitoring scripts prompt dozens of privacy lawsuits against Big Biz, mainly in California and Florida
30 Mar 2021
Cockup or conspiracy? Popular privacy extension ClearURLs removed from Chrome web store
Developer appeals decision, saying 'the reasons are ridiculous'
24 Mar 2021
Chrome 90 goes HTTPS by default while Firefox injects substitute scripts to foil tracking tech
Privacy. Are we there yet? No, but there's some progress at least
24 Mar 2021
LINE stops data flowing to China after Japanese officials ditch app over privacy concerns
App's owner says users didn't bail
24 Mar 2021
Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook
Updated Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?
23 Mar 2021
Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts
Exclusive Got a link? Change the last character and bingo, it's blackmail time
23 Mar 2021
America's Supremes give Facebook nothing but heartaches: Top court won't stop '$15bn wiretap' lawsuit
Class action accusing antisocial media giant of privacy infringement will now move forward
23 Mar 2021
What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people's phone numbers? If you're OpenAI, you create a filter
Special report How to curb GPT-3's tongue
18 Mar 2021
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