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DuckDuckGo’s beta Mac app is open to public with new features

October 18, 2022 Lauren Forristal 187 ViewsDuckDuckGo, mac, online privacy, web browser 1 min read

DuckDuckGo’s web browser for Mac is now available as an open beta test, the Internet privacy company announced today. Six months after the web browsing app rolled out as a closed beta, DuckDuckGo added new features to version 0.30, including a “Duck Player” to defend users from targeted ads and cookies when they watch YouTube […]

California pushes ahead with its own children’s online privacy protections

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California pushes ahead with its own children’s online privacy protections

August 30, 2022 Taylor Hatmaker 197 ViewsCalifornia Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, coppa, online privacy 3 min read

California lawmakers have passed a bill that seeks to make apps and other online spaces safer for kids in the absence of robust federal standards. The bill, if signed into law, would impose a set of new protections for people under the age of 18 in California, potentially punishing tech companies with thousands in fines […]

Uh oh! European carriers are trying to get into ‘personalized’ ad targeting

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Uh oh! European carriers are trying to get into ‘personalized’ ad targeting

June 24, 2022 Natasha Lomas 273 ViewsAdtech, cookie tracking, data processing, data protection law, deutsche telekom, digital advertising, Europe, General Data Protection Regulation, Germany, Marketing, mobile web, online advertising, online privacy, privacy, spain, T-Mobile, targeted advertising, telecommunications, tracking, trustpid, vodafone 17 min read

As Google works on reconfiguring its adtech stack to move away from cookie-based ad targeting to something else that’s not yet fixed but which it claims will be better for individual web users’ privacy — and after Apple’s move last year to lock down third-party tracking of app users on iOS, also on a claim […]

Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

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Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

May 16, 2022 Natasha Lomas 227 ViewsData Mining, data protection, data security, digital rights, Elizabeth Denham, Europe, european commission, european union, Federal Trade Commission, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Johnny Ryan, Microsoft, online advertising, online privacy, online tracking, privacy, rtb, United Kingdom, United States, us government, web infrastructure, Yandex 11 min read

New data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system’s use of web users’ info for tracking and ad targeting, released today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), suggests Google and other key players in the high velocity, surveillance-based ad auction system are processing and passing people’s data billions of times per day. “RTB is the […]