GDPR Privacy

Spy pixels in email becoming the new normal

The use of “invisible” tracking tech in emails is now “endemic”, according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC’s request. 66% of emails sent to its users’ personal accounts contained a “spy pixel”, even after excluding for spam.Emails pixels can be used to log:– if and when an email is opened– […]

Privacy
TikTok misleads, offers insufficient protection and uses unfair and unclear terms and conditions

TikTok misleads, offers insufficient protection and uses unfair and unclear terms and conditions

The Consumers’ Association and seventeen other European consumer organizations today filed a complaint against TikTok with the European Commission and the European network of regulators CPC. The complaints include the “unfair” copyright terms of TikTok, which gives the platform the right to reuse, distribute and reproduce videos without compensation to users, while these rights should […]

Privacy

Spy pixels in email becoming the new normal

The use of “invisible” tracking tech in emails is now “endemic”, according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC’s request. 66% of emails sent to its users’ personal accounts contained a “spy pixel”, even after excluding for spam. Emails pixels can be used to log: (1) if and when an email […]

Cybersecurity Privacy
Lubach: politics is illiterate

Lubach: politics is illiterate

Lubach states that politicians are often digitally illiterate based on responses to GGD data leaks, secure digital meetings, encryption, Facebook session in the US, etc. with all the dangers this entails for society. Now this does not apply to all MPs. Fortunately, a digital committee has been set up…. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRNJN_GQnRA&t=2s

Privacy
Rioting at the Capitol, watch your privacy settings!

Rioting at the Capitol, watch your privacy settings!

Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event’s digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing. So when they stormed the Capitol their apps tracked them down and identified individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. Read more about this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html

Privacy

Rioting at the Capitol, watch your privacy settings!

Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event’s digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing. So when they stormed the Capitol their apps tracked them down and identified individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. Read more about this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html