Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode ~tech google privacy browsers internet Article 1160 words 55 votes
Google halts its four-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome ~tech privacy browsers google Article 743 words 36 votes
Google dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome ~tech google browsers Article 282 words 22 votes
Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (company offering apps with ads and tracking) ~tech android privacy Link 53 votes
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants ~tech google Article 284 words 27 votes
Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations ~tech privacy Article 3015 words, published May 20 2023 10 votes
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook ~tech privacy facebook social media Article 3590 words 7 votes
American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on CIA and NSA ~tech Article 3469 words 11 votes
Mozilla Rally - Data collection for research about data collection ~tech privacy Article 76 words 9 votes
Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs ~tech privacy Article 659 words, published Nov 10 2021 22 votes
New study raises fresh ‘privacy concerns’ about data sharing from Android mobile phones ~tech privacy android Article 646 words 6 votes
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you ~tech privacy Article 873 words 22 votes
Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices ~tech privacy Article 1151 words 15 votes
Surveillance on UK council websites - A study of private companies’ data collection on council websites across the United Kingdom ~tech privacy google Article 330 words 8 votes
Avast announces that they are shutting down Jumpshot, their subsidiary that's been collecting and selling user data to marketing clients ~tech privacy Link 11 votes
Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it ~tech privacy Article 3350 words, published Dec 4 2019 11 votes
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories of 4M users ~tech browsers privacy internet Article 3609 words 15 votes
Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data? ~tech privacy security Article 1202 words, published Aug 31 2018 16 votes
CCleaner provokes fury over Active Monitoring, user data collection ~tech privacy Article 751 words 28 votes