This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our
analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a
third party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of
major companies, which we identify. We successfully extracted privacy policies
for 3,856 sites, 17% of the total. The policies were written such that one
might need a two-year college education to understand them. Our content
analysis of the sample's domains indicated 44.97% of them expose or suggest a
specific gender/sexual identity or interest likely to be linked to the user. We
identify three core implications of the quantitative results: 1) the
unique/elevated risks of porn data leakage versus other types of data, 2) the
particular risks/impact for vulnerable populations, and 3) the complications of
providing consent for porn site users and the need for affirmative consent in
these online sexual interactions.

This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do thi

The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny.

I’ve noticed something about Google Photos that is weird enough that nobody initially believes it.

High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard - knadh/listmonk

Steeds meer Nederlanders gebruiken de slimme Google Home-assistent in huis. Het zou zomaar kunnen dat medewerkers van Google meer horen dan je lief is.

Breaking down why I have decided to start blocking Google from crawling my website

‘Oh wow, the AI just tagged my profile picture as basic’

They started caching images, but since open tracking pixel URLs are unique (after all, that's how they track an individual recipient) and Google only caches the image if you open the mail, essentially you still get tracking. You just don't get to count how many times the email is opened or the length it's opened (a common trick is to leave the connection open to see how long the client keeps the request open).

PixelBlock is a Gmail extension that blocks people from tracking when you open their emails.

You can tell who is using email trackers on you, and it's usually unsettling.

Capital One Financial Corp. said data from about 100 million people in the U.S. was illegally accessed after prosecutors accused a Seattle woman identified by Amazon.com Inc. as one of its former cloud service employees of breaking into the bank’s server.

For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling that their users did not want their browsing activity tracked. Despite long hours and backing from...

Jesus Mendez, the SEO Director at MailOnline, which operators DailyMail.co.uk, has admitted publicly that the site took a massive hit by the June 2019 Google core update which began rolling out June 3

Dropbox ambushes its users with a radically different version of its sync app.

Many images uploaded on Facebook contain IPTC/IIM fields which are apparently automatically added during the upload process:
Special Instruction, a string beginning with "FBMD"
Original Transmiss...

Malicious apps from a campaign called "Agent Smith" have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.

New study reveals scary, sneaky tactics

Security researchers have found a user database, belonging to a company that operates a smart home device management platform and consisting two billion records,

Opinion: We've been assured that facial recognition technology is secure, reliable, and accurate. That's far from certain.

MailHops Postbox and Thunderbird plugin. Contribute to MailHops/mailhops-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub.

This Add-on allows to have HTML temporarily allowed in the currently displayed message by only one click. When switching to another message, it'll be shown automatically again in plain text or simple html mode (if this is your default mode).

When even Microsoft starts calling for government regulation, you know the technology is a problem

In a new report, Apple takes its turn in the crosshairs over how it reviews user recordings.

Users value their privacy, and Apple understands that. We even see related PR activities.

Google employees are apparently stopping people in the streets of some major cities in an effort to gather face data, probably as it prepares for Pixel 4.

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Earlier this year we announced that we're using Apple's MapKit JS framework to power our mapping features. Today, we're excited to show you some new improvements.

Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially…

By default, Slack keeps all messages forever. The EFF is calling Slack out on this policy for not putting more control over data in the hands of users.

MailHops maps the route an email took to get to you. Displaying the senders location, weather, user-agent and authentication used.

Create and Save or Send Multiple Individual and Personalized Messages from a Draft

Grubhub has been buying up to 23,000 fake domains that resemble real restaurants.