Rakuten: Amazon's share of US e-commerce fell to 38.5% in June from 42.1% in January; Target's share grew from 2.2% to 3.5% and Walmart's from 4.2% to 5%
it's overwhelmed and unable to keep up. Now, it's losing business to competitors (Target, Walmart) that have nationwide brick & mortar fulfillment centers called “stores."https://www.washingtonpost.co...
Report: the official COVID-19 contact tracing app for North Dakota is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google
seems that the creators weren't trying to share the data, but the use of 3rd party components led to data leaking. Sounds like a job for... #SBOM and SW component transaprency! https://www.washingtonp...
Facebook says its Off-Facebook Activity tool, which claims to let users clear data collected from other apps and sites, from their accounts, is now available
The purpose of the Oversight Board is to protect freedom … Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : All users can now access Facebook's tool for controlling which apps and sites can share data for ad-targeting Dwig...
After announcing the Clear History privacy tool over a year ago, Facebook finally begins rolling it out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain
from the news they read, to the shopping websites they visit, to, yes, the porn they watch https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : Using Facebook's new “Off-Facebook A...
As states try to bring transparency to the data broker industry, a look at Vermont's law mandating that brokers register but has led to few accurately doing so
and at least one dead person. Our story on data brokers, a business that's being threatened by a new regulatory push: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... David Carroll / @profc...
20 years since children's online protection law COPPA was passed, it has been weakened by court rulings, uneven enforcement, and relentless technological change
Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Tweets: @geoffreyfowler and @byheatherlong See also Mediagazer Tweets: Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : How does YouTube get around a law aimed at protecting k...
A senior Facebook source says the company has no plans to enter China, after Zuckerberg says Facebook won't build data centers in countries that violate privacy
Since Patched—Let Hackers See Who Facebook Messenger Users Were Chatting With, Researcher Says Alex Hern / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg's privacy blogpost: what he did and didn't say Chris Nuttall /...