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FFS FACEBOOK.
Web companies and browser makers are rolling out encryption that can obscure the identity of many–though not yet all–of the websites you visit.
Notice-and-consent is broken. Interview with Helen Nissenbaum.
Companies want access to more and more of your personal data — from where you are to what’s in your DNA. Can they unlock its value without triggering a privacy backlash?
It’s the best way to avoid the heaviest hand of regulation.
FFS FACEBOOK.
Hoping to protect the privacy and safety of K-12 students, the FBI has issued a public service announcement encouraging awareness of cyberthreats involving education technologies, or edtech.
Large-scale collection of human behavioral data by companies raises serious privacy concerns. We show that behavior captured in the form of application usage data collected from smartphones is...
Fingerprint collecting platform
France’s data protection regulator wants the so-called right to be forgotten to be applied globally.
Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more.
Private browsing is a privacy-enhancing tool, where the web browser does not record users’ private browsing activities on the local device.
People assume it means their information will be kept private. Nothing could be further from the truth.
A presentation about web tracking, web analytics, and web privacy in academic libraries.
India’s biometric ID system is a cautionary tale.
Some tracking scripts may be harmless. But others are designed to recognize I.P. addresses and embed cookies that collect information prized by advertisers.
Shoppers at the Chinook Centre, a mall in Calgary, Canada, have been unwittingly scanned by face recognition software.