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138 votes
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What are the arguments against letting user data be collected?
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the...
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the user clicked.
Nevertheless, such data collection, tracking and telemetry is considered quite bad among power users. I don't support those practices either. But I'm struggling to consolidate my arguments agaist data collection. The one I'm confident about is effects on performance and battery life on mobile devices, but why else it's bad I'm not sure.
What are your arguments? Why is it bad when a company X knows what anonymous user Y did and made money on that info? What's the good response to anyone who asks why I'm doing the "privacy things"?
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Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
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Is it even worthwhile to turn off ad personalization or location tracking for services/apps?
So, I’m moving to a new phone and revisiting a lot of accounts, apps, and settings. When it comes to things like location history or ad personalization or whatever, is it even worthwhile to turn...
So, I’m moving to a new phone and revisiting a lot of accounts, apps, and settings.
When it comes to things like location history or ad personalization or whatever, is it even worthwhile to turn it off? Am I really supposed to believe that because I have some toggle off that Google suddenly doesn’t track where I drive on Maps? Like if they are going to be tracking me, which I assume they are, I might as well be able to see it to rather than have it exist in the aether somewhere where the info is attributed to me but not viewable in the UI.
Even with ads, I know shadow profiles are a thing, and that they definitely have data beyond what they show in the UI, so might as well opt in there too right? Plus, the non-targeted ads I get are basically porn-tier ads or stuff for gay men.
What should I do here? Move into the woods? Feels like I can’t win.
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What are y'all's favorite (private?) trackers?
promise im probably not a fed
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Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (company offering apps with ads and tracking)
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Employee monitoring software surges as companies send staff home
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
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Scroll: A subscription service partnered with major websites that removes ads and many trackers, and pays sites based on your usage
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Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections
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App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea
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Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
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$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
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I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress; here’s what happened
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By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
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How smart TVs in millions of US homes track more than what’s on tonight
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Abortion Search Noise Generator
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In major privacy win, US Supreme Court rules police need warrant to track your cellphone
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Private Internet Access’ “no-logging” claims proven true again in court
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Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online
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Cover Your Tracks - A new EFF project designed to better uncover the tools and techniques of online trackers and test the efficacy of privacy add-ons (successor to Panopticlick)
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The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
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Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking
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Oracle's BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online
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How to move your Instagram feed to Pixelfed, the photo app that doesn't track your every move
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Here’s what the opt-in app tracking in iOS 14.5 means to marketers — and how they might respond
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96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
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Panopticlick: How unique is your browser?
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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How traceable are you? - Experiment results & analysis
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Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
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DuckDuckGo now crawls the web regularly to create a free list of trackers to block
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At least two malls are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers' ages and genders without telling
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Google axes bad reviews of tracker exposing Uyghur forced labor
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
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Enhancements to tracking protection in Safari: full third-party cookie blocking, 7-day cap on script-writeable storage, and more
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Watching you watch: The tracking system of over-the-top TV streaming devices
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Oil traders are now watching workers’ phones to spot problems at refineries
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Google’s new Play Store rules target annoying ads and copycat crypto apps
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Apple delays "asking permission to track" privacy feature in iOS 14, releases more information about upcoming privacy updates
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Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
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Feedbin goes private by default, explains design desicions to enhance user privacy
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Tracing paper - A brief history of the secret plan to track every printed page
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Auto industry TV ads claim right-to-repair laws would benefit "sexual predators"
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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
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Hey Google! When did I ask you to access my Purchase details?
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Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms' A different view - the Australian...
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
A different view - the Australian Broadcasting Commission: Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students
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Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
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