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Congress’s inaction inches us toward a world where everyone is being watched, the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/388m3lg
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Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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In our own research we used this corpus to study dark patterns and manipulative tactics that political candidates use to raise money. But we've just scratched the surface and we expect there are many other questions that the data can shed light on. xitter.cf/random_walker/status/1…
At Princeton CITP, we were concerned by media reports that political candidates use psychological tricks in their emails to get supporters to donate. So we collected 250,000 emails from 3,000 senders from the 2020 U.S. election cycle. Here’s what we found. electionemails2020.org/
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The WA legislature is considering a consumer data privacy bill. By now, legislators know that our data is sold to unaffiliated third parties, which zero people would opt in to. They don't seem to care.
So, I sent this to @RepDrewHansen's cmte:
troy.yort.com/letter-to-wash…
/@ACLU_WA
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Facebook Is Launching an All-Out War on Apple's Upcoming iPhone Update
L: npr.org/2021/02/26/971367875…
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Companies are paying to show us a lot of ads that we are not remotely interested in. One large fintech company paid to show me the same ad 2,081 times in a single month. See my blog here: adalytics.io/blog/how-many-r…
#DigitalMarketing #adtech
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New blog post "Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings"
TL;DR The Google Chrome setting "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome" doesn't work right for Google sites such as Search and YouTube.
lapcatsoftware.com/articles/…
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Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
L: lapcatsoftware.com/articles/…
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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You can now directly pay TV constructors to display ads to a targeted audience
L: samsung.com/us/business/sams…
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads flatpanelshd.com/news.php?su…
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Q: I value my privacy. Which mobile OS should I choose?
A: Whichever one Facebook warns advertisers about – so, iOS 14 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id…).
Facebook acknowledges that Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 could lead to a more than 50% drop in its Audience Network advertising business. cnb.cx/34HTFCa
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Hiding privacy settings behind a "learn more" link is blatantly deceptive. The wording suggests a link to a privacy policy instead of controls, and is designed to minimize people clicking on it. The fact that it's so common says a lot about the sorry state of consumer protection.
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If you've logged onto twitter recently to see "An update to your data-sharing settings," here's what that's all about:
eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/tw…
ALT A screenshot of the twitter popup in question. The header reads: An update to your data sharing settings
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Data brokers have been getting back to me.
Weirdest thing so far: LexisNexis has my email from when I was 12. I stopped using it then, and clearly couldn't have consented to anything.
So, they've successfully tracked me for 20 years.
And.. they give me info that's not mine 👇
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"Watching you watch: the tracking ecosystem of over-the-top TV streaming devices" Moghaddam et al., blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/10/… #themorningpaper
Quantifying the pervasive tracking that goes on with OTT TV services.
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If you are creeped out about the new Facebook "off Facebook activity", there are lots of insightful comments in this HN thread that explains why this happens. I learned a lot about how transaction data is bought/sold and why: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Think maybe it's not so bad if @ring tracks your doorbell usage or whatever? How about notifying *Facebook* when you use it or when it sees your phone go to sleep due to inactivity? You are the product, not the customer. It's outrageous.
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Grindr and OKCupid shared location data with dozens of advertisers, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. To fix privacy on phones, first we need to rein in the rampant privacy abuses inherent to the system of real-time bidding, or RTB. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/gr…
