Want readers to start trusting you again? Stop stalking them across the...
(…) trust must also involve thinking thoughtfully about the platforms and tools we use to track readers, measure behavior and determine how to monetize. It must involve thinking about the data we...
View ArticleWired: Facebook bug could have let advertisers get your phone number
Facebook tells users that giving the company their mobile phone number will help keep their account secure. Until a few weeks ago, however, the social network’s self-service ad-targeting tools could be...
View ArticleRockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Rockwell hat 1984 die aktuellen Probleme mit den "Social" Networks, Cloudservices und der Monetarisierung von personenbezogenen Daten vorhergesehen und in einen Song verpackt. 1984....
View ArticleTick, Trick und Scheisstrack
Jetzt also #deletefacebook? Hm. Ich finde es ja einerseits gut, dass endlich (endlich?) mal die Diskussion darüber aufkommt, was Facebook (hier stellvertretend für alle Datenmolkereien genannt) so...
View ArticleThe indieweb privacy challenge (webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR) -...
A thorough article on the current challenges, technically and ethically, regarding the use of elsewhere published public data that can be regarded as 'personal data' in the GDPR/DSGVO sense. Data that...
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DeleteFaceBook
So, endlich habe ich meinen Facebook Account gelöscht. Anfang des Jahres hatte ich bereits sämtliche Aktivitäten dort eingestellt, alle meine Inhalte gelöscht. Wobei, "gelöscht" bei Facebook heisst ja...
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All your face are belong to us
Imagine you'd like to build a database with not only every data you usually can get through user interaction with your service and the device where your app has been installed on, but with pictures of...
View ArticleTwelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - The New York Times
Within America’s own representative democracy, citizens would surely rise up in outrage if the government attempted to mandate that every person above the age of 12 carry a tracking device that...
View Article"The intelligence coup of the century" - The Washington Post
(…) Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that...
View ArticleThe new oil
Anselm just published a response* to NYT's "The Big Five tech companies increasingly dominate our lives. Could you ditch them?" quiz. His personal results seem to be quite similar to what I'd find out....
View ArticleWhy You Should Fly Under The Radar When Booking A Trip - Mozilla Blog
To start, if you use the web to find cheap flights, you might notice an uptick in web ads for the routes you just searched for. These results aren’t just influenced by what you look up and buy online,...
View ArticleGDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
The TCF consent system infringes the GDPR in the following ways: Fails to ensure personal data are kept secure and confidential (Article 5(1)f, and 32 GDPR) Fails to properly request consent, and...
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