Advertising and AdTech
House Passes Privacy-Preserving Bill, but Biden Blasts it
Richi Jennings | | 4th Amendment, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, Biden, Biden administration, Biden-Harris, Congress, congressional legislation, Data Broker, Data broker regulations, Data Brokers, foreign adtech, Fourth Amendment, Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act (FANFSA ), H.R. 4639, House of Representatives, Joe Biden, national security, national security policy, President Biden, SB Blogwatch, US Congress, White House
Are you a FANFSA fan? The White House isn’t. It says the bill “threatens national security.” ...
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Chrome’s Incognito Mode Isn’t as Private as You Think — but Google’s Not Sorry
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, Chrome, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, customer privacy, Data Privacy, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Ad, Google AdSense, Google advertising, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Security, Incognito, Incognito Mode, Link History, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Short term gain for long term pain? Class action attorney David Boies asked for $5,000 per user, but got nothing—except some assurances Google will delete data it no longer needs ...
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Malicious AdTech Spies on People as NatSec Targets
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, bidding, foreign adtech, google, Google advertising, national security, Nuviad, Patternz, Rafi Ton, SB Blogwatch, security service
Targeted ads target targets: Patternz and Nuviad enable potentially hostile governments to track individuals by misusing ad bidding ...
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Facebook’s New Privacy Nightmare: ‘Link History’
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, customer privacy, Data Privacy, DeleteFacebook, facebook, Facebook data, key loggers, key logging, Keylog, keylogger, keyloggers, keylogging, Link History, Meta, Meta Networks, Meta Pixel, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
How stupid does he think we are? You’ll want to turn off this new app setting ...
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Happy New Year: Google Cookie Block Starts Soon, but Fear Remains
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, Google Chrome, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
2024 almost here: Rollout begins Jan 4, but few trust Google’s motives ...
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Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox?
Richi Jennings | | ad blockers, ad-blocker, ad-blocking, adblock, adblockers, adblocking, adblocks, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, google, Manifest V3, SB Blogwatch, uBlock Origin
Manifest V3: Destiny. Huge advertising monopoly flexes muscles: “Manifest V2” extensions to be nuked, but “V3” cripples ad blockers ...
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Don’t Be Evil: Google’s Scary ‘IP Protection’ Privacy Plan
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, anonymization proxy, Anti-Fingerprinting, Browser Fingerprinting, Chrome, Cloud Proxy, Data Privacy, device fingerprinting, EU GDPR, fingerprinting, GDPR, GDPR compliance, gdpr eu, gdpr legislation, GeoIP, Gnatcatcher, google, Google Chrome, IP address, IP address tracker, IP Protection, Privacy, proxy, proxy server, proxy servers, proxy service, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, tracking, zero trust
Firefox here we come! “Free” privacy proxy for all Chrome users? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? ...
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Google Kills 3rd-Party Cookies — but Monopolizes AdTech
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, FLEDGE, FLoC, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Firefox looking good right now: “Privacy Sandbox” criticized as a proprietary, hypocritical, anti-competitive, self-serving contradiction ...
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Oracle’s HUGE Ad Data Graph is ‘Illegal Panopticon’ — 5 BILLION People Big
Richi Jennings | | ad tracking, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, California, California Constitution, California Invasion of Privacy Act, facebook, federal law, Federal Wiretap Act, ID Graph, In contravention to the California Constitution and the reasonable expectations of privacy of California residents, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, Unfair Competition Law
Oracle “illegally” collects and links data about you, selling it to the highest bidder—all without your consent ...
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Apple Delays Launch of Certain iOS 14 Privacy Features, Including Tracking Consent
Today, Apple confirmed that it will delay the launch of its iOS 14 AppTrackingTransparency feature until early next year. However, Apple still intends to release iOS 14 this fall, along with its new ...