Tag: Adtech
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Adtech Surveillance and Government Surveillance are Often the Same Surveillance
With the click of a mouse, police can use such surveillance tools to see the devices of people who attended a protest, follow them home to …
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Researchers find exposed data on millions of users of quiz app, TVSmiles
“Our analysis has revealed that the data consists of a database backup that was created in 2017 and mistakenly stored in a cloud storage …
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Daily Crunch: French data watchdog investigates Criteo
Criteo faces a privacy investigation, an e-discovery startup raises $62 million and hackers hack other hackers. Here’s your Daily Crunch …
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GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook
GoodRx – a mobile app that saves US consumers money on prescription drugs – has apologized and sworn to do better after a Consumer …
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Facebook’s latest ‘transparency’ tool doesn’t offer much — so we went digging
We offer a variety of tools to help people access their Facebook information, and we’ve designed these tools to comply with relevant …
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Mental health websites in Europe found sharing user data for ads
Research by a privacy rights advocacy group has found popular mental health websites in the EU are sharing users’ sensitive personal data …
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Why we need to rethink how we measure SEO
Do not rely too heavily on traditional metrics like domain authority SEO has become pivotal to the functioning of the modern economy; …
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Privacy policies are still too horrible to read in full
A year on from Europe’s flagship update to the pan-EU data protection framework the Commission has warned that too many privacy policies …
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GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe
It’s a year since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and leaky adtech is now facing privacy complaints …
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Adtech veteran Quantcast is latest tech giant to face GDPR privacy probe
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is the lead data protection regulator for most multinational tech giants in Europe, has opened a formal probe into Quantcast’s business …
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Covert data-scraping on watch as EU DPA lays down “radical” GDPR red-line
An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s …
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