by Surur
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After rumours that Facebook will be abandoning their plans to delete the accounts of WhatsApp users who decline to accept their new Terms of Service on the 15th May, the company has posted a FAQ which explains exactly how they pla...
by Surur
6 days
Google developed FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) as an end-run around 3rd party cookies, but it turns out many consider them to just be Cookies v2 (now built into your browser). Certainly in Europe, privacy regulators are not...
by Surur
2 weeks
With a billion iPhones out there, Apple’s Find My mesh location network is pretty dense, and if someone wanted to track you wherever you went, it would be pretty simple to slip a tiny Airtag into your handbag. Fortunately, A...
by Surur
3 weeks
When asked directly if Microsoft support Google’s FLoC user profiling technology Microsoft has been far from clear cut, merely saying they intend to follow whatever standard the web eventually settles on, while promoting the...
by Surur
3 weeks
Google appears to be running into growing and concerted opposition to their proposal to build user profiling into their Chrome browser and today we have a massive heavyweight joining the battle. WordPress has announced that they w...
by Surur
3 weeks
Google has run into trouble with regulators again, this time on the other side of the world. Yesterday the Australian Federal Court found that Google misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile ...
by Surur
4 weeks
Google is currently in the process of testing and refining its FLoC machine learning algorithm on millions of Chrome users. The system would profile users into groups based on their browsing history, and then offer this group ID t...
by Surur
1 month
Google is currently in the process of replacing the ability to profile users via 3rd party cookies with its own Privacy Sandbox, which would conveniently take control from websites and advertisers and move it into Google’s o...
by Surur
2 months
A new sync item has appeared in the profile settings of the Edge browser. In Edge Canary, there is now a new toggle called “Share browsing data with other Windows features” According to the description Microsoft plans to use d...
by Surur
2 months
Google has failed to get a case dismissed accusing the company of tracking users in Incognito mode. The company is being accused of tracking users using their tracking tools such as Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plu...