2022-07-02
Success! The European Commission have made Amazon change their cancellation procedure, as a result of our 2021 complaint. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
The European Commission says Amazon agreed to drop “dark patterns” from the process required to unsubscribe from its Prime membership across its sites in the EU
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2021-03-05
“[Google's] framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” It's not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads.” https://www.eff.org/...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Google's FLoC, which helps advertisers perform behavioral targeting, avoids privacy risks of 3rd-party cookies, but creates new privacy issues in the process
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. — No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it.
2020-12-03
Here's more on how a person in Norway installing a weather app with swear words can have their information end up with US intelligence agencies. The system is broken. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
DHS' IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking people without a warrant by buying brokered cellphone data, after Democratic senators' request
a contractor that works with ICE—obtains location data from apps. Names the middlemen companies that feed the data. Unclear if ICE gets all data from this chain, but certainly Venn...
2020-08-26
Even *Google software engineers* were confused about how to turn off location tracking in their services, according to newly unsealed documents. How can anyone expect regular people to navigate this maze of dark patterns and obfuscation? https://www.azmirror.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ars Technica
Unsealed court docs: Google engineers admitted knowing and discussing that the company's location privacy app settings were confusing and could be misleading
Users could make change, but it was “difficult enough that people won't,” one employee wrote. — Newly unsealed and partially …
2020-03-23
Food for thought: Banning targeted advertising will not fix everything, but would probably curb the data hunger. We agree with @johnnyryan in the assessment that much of this is already illegal in Europe, we just need enforcement of the GDPR. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Ban on targeted behavioral advertising may be the single best way to fix the internet, from protecting privacy and sanitizing social media, to saving journalism
From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.