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Data Broker Sold Location Data of Visitors to 600 Planned Parenthood Facilities to Anti-Abortion Group for Targeted Advertising (www.theregister.com)
AMC to Pay $8 Million for Alleged Violation of Video Privacy Law Through Use of Tracking Technologies, Including Meta Pixel, X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology (arstechnica.com)
According to subscribers suing, AMC allegedly installed tracking technologies—including the Meta Pixel, the X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology—on its website, allowing their personally identifying information to be connected with their viewing history....
Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges (arstechnica.com)
Toyota cars collecting and potentially sharing location data and personal information, Choice says, and it's not the only car brand facing privacy concerns (www.abc.net.au)
Rafi Alam from CHOICE told The World Today: "When we looked at Toyota's privacy policy, we found that these Connected Services features will collect data such as fuel levels, odometer readings, vehicle location and driving data, as well as personal information like phone numbers and email addresses."...
Toyota cars collecting and potentially sharing location data and personal information, Choice says, and it's not the only car brand facing privacy concerns (www.abc.net.au)
Rafi Alam from CHOICE told The World Today: "When we looked at Toyota's privacy policy, we found that these Connected Services features will collect data such as fuel levels, odometer readings, vehicle location and driving data, as well as personal information like phone numbers and email addresses."...
Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI (gizmodo.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11642180...
Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI (gizmodo.com)
Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very...
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users towards Edge in a new Research Report (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11483626...
Did ad blockers survive YouTube's offensive? Letting numbers talk (adguard.com)
TL;DR version:...
Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for likely more than $500M (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people’s PCs (arstechnica.com)
Users of Google Chrome on Windows 10 and 11 are reporting that they have suddenly found themselves using Microsoft Edge, with their Chrome browsing sessions appearing in Edge....
Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year (www.versobooks.com)
Enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author of The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse:...
Fossify Contacts and Fossify SMS Messenger (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) are now available, joining Fossify's existing suite of Gallery, File Manager, Phone, and Calendar apps. (search.f-droid.org)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11253225...
ICYMI: Some of Apple's EU changes are coming only to the iPhone, not the iPad. (9to5mac.com)
The iPad is not part of all modifications made by Cupertino to adhere to the EU law....
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11219865...
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers (www.eff.org)
Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...
Fossify Phone (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) is now available, adding to Fossify's existing Gallery, File Manager, and Calendar apps
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11117839...
Facebook Messenger's Rollout of End-to-End Encryption Leaves Metadata Questions Unanswered (spectrum.ieee.org)
Excerpts from the article and another article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) :...
Companies Make it Too Easy for Thieves to Impersonate Police and Steal Our Data (www.eff.org)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10984512...
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10958052...
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends....
Mozilla's Platform Tilt: Tracking technical issues which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser within major software platforms (mozilla.github.io)
About Platform Tilt:...
Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You (spectrum.ieee.org)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10921294...