Fingerprinting is a type of online tracking that’s different from cookies or ordinary trackers. Now you can block fingerprinting with Firefox.

The following text is an inofficial English translation of the article ProtonMail bietet freiwillig Hand für Echtzeit-Überwachungen as published on 23 May 2019 in German. The translation was arranged for …

This latest doctored video proves that Facebook as we knew it is over.

Vehicles collect a lot of unusual data. But who owns it?

Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy, Privacy International has analyzed the data that 34 apps on Android, each with an install base from 10 to 500 million, transmit to Facebook through the Facebook SDK.

By now, everyone who follows technology should be aware of the scandals around Facebook's ethics and data privacy. Many users distrust them and are uncomfortable with their data collection practices.

Most phones that ship with Google’s Android operating system also come with a bunch of Google apps and services installed. But Android is open source software, so independent developers have been finding ways to de-Google Android for years. One of the more recent options comes from developer Gaël Duval and the /e/ Foundation. The /e/ …

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In this Twitter exchange, jetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face -- from the DHS

Photo by Roger H. Goun

Chloe is an investigative journalist working for an international broadcast service; we will call the TV show she works for The Inquirer. She travels around the world to work with local journalists on uncovering stories that make the headlines: from human trafficking to drug cartels and government corruption. While her documentaries are watched by many and inspire change in the countries she works in, you would not know who Chloe is if we were to tell you her real name. That is because Chloe works hard to protect her anonymity.

Transport for London will roll out default wi-fi device tracking on the London Underground this summer, following a trial back in 2016. In a press release announcing the move, TfL writes that “secure, privacy-protected data collection will begin on July 8” — while touting addition…

Google collects the purchases you've made, including from other stores and sites such as Amazon, and saves them on a page called Purchases.

A report last week about Fxmsp hacker group claiming access to the networks and source code of three antivirus companies with offices in the U.S. generated from alleged victims statements that are disputed by the firm that sounded the alarm.

Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its developer platform’s data, and has refused to cooperate with a mandatory compliance audit and requ…

Why open source firmware is important for security.

Thanks to Tinder's patchwork use of HTTPS, researchers found they could reconstruct someone's entire experience in the app.

Seeing your favorite band live will probably cost you more in data than in dollars.

ProtonMail is supporting the crowdfunding campaign for Disappear – Cover your online tracks, a new documentary project by the makers of Nothing to Hide. At ProtonMail, one pillar of our mission is to educate the public about why online privacy is so important to democracy and human freedom. The creators of the new documentary, Disappear …

Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.

Les applications et les services gratuits collectent beaucoup d’informations sur leurs utilisateurs, même lorsqu’ils ne sont pas connectés

Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose.

About half of Facebook users say they are not comfortable when they see how the platform categorizes them, and 27% maintain the site’s classifications do not accurately represent them.

<p>In the last week of April, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.ly came from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of external referral traffic—traffic, that is, that comes from platforms, apps, and other outside sources— to news sites. Together with the fact that Facebook […]</p>

With this paper, we survey the research performed in the domain of browser
fingerprinting, while providing an accessible entry point to newcomers in the
field. We explain how this technique works and where it stems from. We analyze
the related work in detail to understand the composition of modern fingerprints
and see how this technique is currently used online. We systematize existing
defense solutions into different categories and detail the current challenges
yet to overcome.