by Media Release | Apr 12, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security
Microsoft is warning businesses to beware of cyber criminals using company website contact forms to deliver the IcedID info-stealing banking trojan in email with Google URLs to employees. Company website ‘contact us’ forms are an open doorway on the...
by Media Release | Apr 1, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized
Google Chrome Knows Too Much About You: Here’s What To Do Google has finally admitted to just how much data the Chrome web browser harvests from its users, and it’s much more than any other popular browser. So what does Google Chrome know about you? What...
by Media Release | Mar 31, 2021 | Facebook, Google, Privacy, Security
Facebook vs. Google: Similar models, diverging perspectives Facebook and Google share the same fundamental business model of charging companies forads that can be highly targeted due to a wide range of behavioral and inferred consumer attributes. And yet, as I wrote...
by Media Release | Mar 11, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security
How to Tell Which Emails Quietly Track You EVERYONE SENDS EMAILS now: political parties, your book club, freelance journalists, the social networks you’re signed up to, your parents, that online store that you only bought one item from a decade ago, and many,...
by Media Release | Mar 9, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security
Google Has Been Allowing Advertisers to Exclude Nonbinary People from Seeing Job Ads Google’s advertising system allowed employers or landlords to discriminate against nonbinary and some transgender people, The Markup found. Companies trying to run ads on YouTube or...
by Media Release | Mar 8, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security
EFF urges Google to ground its FLoC: ‘Pro-privacy’ third-party cookie replacement not actually great for privacy With the arrival of Google Chrome v89 on Tuesday, Google is preparing to test a technology called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, that...
