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...
by Media Release | Feb 12, 2021 | Amazon, Facebook, Google, Privacy, Security
How Big Tech failed to stop misinformation in 2020 The hottest memes of 2020! The most viral videos of the year! The hottest hashtags! The year-in-review lists from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were missing the biggest story of the year: their failure to stop the...
by Media Release | Feb 11, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security
Google’s acquisition of fitness tracker giant Fitbit has been completed. Both Fitbit and Google published posts on the deal, which is worth a reported $2.1 billion. These articles, after the expected platitudes, largely focus on one element: privacy. This is perhaps...
by Media Release | Jan 6, 2021 | Facebook, Google, Privacy, Security
There is now a very thin line, easily broken, which separates our physical and digital identities. Social networks have evolved from the days of MySpace to valuable, data-slurping machines that have information on everything from our friends and family to our voting...
by Media Release | Dec 21, 2020 | Facebook, Google, Privacy, Security
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