Tag: Facebook
  • Jan 6, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Today’s online advertising not only seriously harms privacy, but is seriously broken in other ways; we need to fix it

For three and half years now, Privacy News Online has been warning about the huge, and largely ignored, danger of micro-targeted ads and real-time bidding (RTB). The approach sounds plausible. Advertisers bid in real time to place ads on sites that are tailored to the person who is loading a Web page. But the price … Continue reading “Today’s online advertising not only seriously harms privacy, but is seriously broken in other ways; we need to fix it”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 18th, 2020 WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger has taken a public stance against Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels. WhatsApp provided the requested privacy information to Apple by the required deadline, but the messaging company also took to the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020”

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  • Dec 10, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive

Facebook’s WhatsApp is publicly protesting Apple’s privacy nutrition labels, calling the privacy labels “anti-competitive.” WhatsApp wishes its iOS users to know that the messaging app isn’t as privacy violating as it may seem based on the labels. WhatsApp has turned in the privacy nutrition labels to Apple – but also published a blogpost to lay … Continue reading “WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive”

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  • Dec 10, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat

It’s no secret that practically every Web page we visit is infested with trackers. On its own, that would be bad enough. But most trackers are used in order to aggregate enormous quantities of data. Taken together, these create extremely detailed profiles that reveal many things about us, include some pretty private and intimate ones. … Continue reading “New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 27, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of November 27th, 2020 Official Trump 2020 App collected phone numbers from contact lists without consent and could sell that data New details about the official app used by the Trump 2020 campaign have been revealed and things aren’t looking good. Former employees admitted that the app ignored user … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 27, 2020”

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  • Oct 15, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

French data protection authority says it can’t trust top US Internet companies with EU personal data – even if they keep it in the EU

Last month, this blog looked at the continuing repercussions of the decision by the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), to strike down the Privacy Shield framework that legalizes most flows of personal information from the EU to the US. The privacy activist who brought the original case against … Continue reading “French data protection authority says it can’t trust top US Internet companies with EU personal data – even if they keep it in the EU”

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  • Oct 2, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

US official alleges big tech has started giving Hong Kong user data to China under new national security law

A senior US state official has alleged that big tech companies are already handing over Hong Kong user data to Chinese officials, The Guardian reports. Hong Kong has been drastically changed this year by a new national security law which firmly put Hong Kong in China’s vice grip. The official, whose anonymity The Guardian has … Continue reading “US official alleges big tech has started giving Hong Kong user data to China under new national security law”

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  • Sep 30, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides, Surveillance,

How Blacklight illuminates the murky world of ad tracking, key logging, canvas fingerprinting, Facebook pixels, and more

It is hardly news that we are being tracked as we visit Web sites, and move around the Internet. As this blog has reported, it’s the basis of today’s main online business model: using information about where we go, and what we view, in order to allow advertisers to offer highly-targeted advertising based on the … Continue reading “How Blacklight illuminates the murky world of ad tracking, key logging, canvas fingerprinting, Facebook pixels, and more”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: September 25, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of September 25th, 2020 TikTok and WeChat banned in the US? American users need a VPN The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued an order to essentially ban Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat though the move has since been temporarily halted by a judge’s order. Additionally, the approval of … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: September 25, 2020”

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