Tag: google
  • 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: December 4, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 4th, 2020 Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system The increased prevalence of Amazon’s Ring internet connected doorbell has privacy experts worried about surveillance implications. Researchers even found that the Amazon Ring app gathers personal information on the user and sends … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 4, 2020”

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  • Nov 24, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Google sued for using 260mb of cellular data per month to track Android users without permission

Google is being sued by individuals that allege that the company uses cellular data without permission to send information back to Google. Google is facing a lawsuit that highlights just how much data (260mb) Google sends home about you and your Android device. These are all passive, background transfers that will happen even if the … Continue reading “Google sued for using 260mb of cellular data per month to track Android users without permission”

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  • Oct 12, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Google gives IP addresses to police of people who have searched particular keywords or addresses

According to court records from an arson case in Florida, Google regularly provides information to law enforcement about people that search a particular term or physical location using a Google service like Google Search or Google Maps. Information such as the the IP address. Typically, if police have an interest in requesting the search history … Continue reading “Google gives IP addresses to police of people who have searched particular keywords or addresses”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 9, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of October 9th, 2020 Representatives Garcia and Wagner introduce EARN IT Act to the House The EARN IT Act has officially been introduced to the House of Representatives. The EARN IT Act previously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year and has bipartisan support in both the House … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 9, 2020”

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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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  • Sep 23, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Web sites shared over 100 trillion pieces of our personal data last year: time to stop real-time bidding’s blatant disregard of privacy

Last week Privacy News Online wrote about developments in the long-running battle between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook. One of the key issues there is the failure by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) to act on the initial complaint made by Schrems seven years ago. That matters, because under EU law, Ireland … Continue reading “Web sites shared over 100 trillion pieces of our personal data last year: time to stop real-time bidding’s blatant disregard of privacy”

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  • Sep 2, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Federal courts rule that reverse location requests by police violate the Fourth Amendment

The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted to mean that law enforcement can’t serve a warrant on tech companies like Google to try and find out what devices were near the scene of a crime. Federal courts have started to rule that police can’t ask for information on every device near the scene of a crime, … Continue reading “Federal courts rule that reverse location requests by police violate the Fourth Amendment”

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