Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health. Those are just a few of the advertising labels that Google’s adtech infrastructure routinely sticks to Internet users as it watches and tracks what they do online in order to target them with behavioral ads. Intimate and highly sensitive inferences such […]
View More Google and IAB ad category lists show “massive leakage of highly intimate data”, GDPR complaint claimsCategory: european union
Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?
Few issues divide the tech community quite like privacy. Much of Silicon Valley’s wealth has been built on data-driven advertising platforms, and yet, there remain constant concerns about the invasiveness of those platforms. Such concerns have intensified in just the last few weeks as France’s privacy regulator placed a record fine on Google under Europe’s […]
View More Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?The Queen appears to have weighed in on Brexit because things are literally THAT bad
You know things are bad when the Queen wades in.
But, that’s pretty much what’s happened as MPs continue to fight it out over Brexit, with no real resolution in sight.
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Youth-run agency AIESEC exposed over 4 million intern applications
AIESEC, a non-profit that bills itself as the “world’s largest youth-run organization,” exposed more than four million intern applications with personal and sensitive information on a server without a password. Bob Diachenko, an independent security researcher, found an unprotected Elasticsearch database containing the applications on January 11, a little under a month after the database […]
View More Youth-run agency AIESEC exposed over 4 million intern applicationsFacebook urged to give users greater control over what they see
Academics at the universities of Oxford and Stanford think Facebook should give users greater transparency and control over the content they see on its platform. They also believe the social networking giant should radically reform its governance structures and processes to throw more light on content decisions, including by looping in more external experts to […]
View More Facebook urged to give users greater control over what they seeMost Facebook users still in the dark about its creepy ad practices, Pew finds
A study by the Pew Research Center suggests most Facebook users are still in the dark about how the company tracks and profiles them for ad-targeting purposes. Pew found three-quarters (74%) of Facebook users did not know the social networking behemoth maintains a list of their interests and traits to target them with ads, only […]
View More Most Facebook users still in the dark about its creepy ad practices, Pew findsFacebook is launching political ad checks in Nigeria, Ukraine, EU and India in coming months
Facebook is launching some of its self-styled ‘election security’ initiatives into more markets in the coming months ahead of several major votes in countries around the world. In an interview with Reuters the social networking giant confirmed it’s launching checks on political adverts on its platform in Nigeria, Ukraine and the European Union, reiterating too that […]
View More Facebook is launching political ad checks in Nigeria, Ukraine, EU and India in coming monthsLisbon finally gets a substantial VC fund in the shape of Indico Capital Partners
Lisbon, characterized occasionally by some tech scene observers as ‘the warm Berlin’, has been threatening to generate more startups in the last few years, not least because it will now have the enormous Web Summit conference there for the next 10 years, and because it’s a cheap and great place to live. But the startups […]
View More Lisbon finally gets a substantial VC fund in the shape of Indico Capital PartnersNissan’s new Leaf e+ is packing more than just 226 miles of range
Electric vehicle competition is heating up and it’s pushing some of the first entrants to add range and other features in hopes of keeping up with automakers that are just bringing EVs to the market. Nissan has been in this EV game for nearly nine years now. The company has sold more than 380,000 Leaf […]
View More Nissan’s new Leaf e+ is packing more than just 226 miles of rangeAdvisor to Europe’s top court favors regional limit to ‘right to be forgotten’
Google will be cheered by the view of an influential advisor to Europe’s top court vis-a-vis the territorial scope of the so-called ‘Right to be Forgotten’. Since a 2014 Court of Justice decision, search engines operating in Europe have been required to accept and review requests from private citizens to delist outdated or irrelevant search […]
View More Advisor to Europe’s top court favors regional limit to ‘right to be forgotten’Cambridge Analytica’s parent pleads guilty to breaking UK data law
Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Elections, has been fined £15,000 in a UK court after pleading guilty to failing to comply with an enforcement notice issued by the national data protection watchdog, the Guardian reports. While the fine itself is a small and rather symbolic one, given the political data analytics firm went into administration last […]
View More Cambridge Analytica’s parent pleads guilty to breaking UK data lawFacebook and PayPal pull pages of far right British activist filmed intimidating public figures
Facebook has confirmed it has removed the pages and profiles of a far right political activist in the UK after concerns were raised in parliament about aggressive intimidation of politicians and journalists trying to go about their business in and around Westminster. PayPal has also closed an account that was being used to solicit donations […]
View More Facebook and PayPal pull pages of far right British activist filmed intimidating public figures