Tag: privacy

Limit Facebook’s “nonconsensual tracking” dossier on your internet habits with EFF’s Privacy Badger

mostlysignssomeportents:

Privacy Badger is EFF’s
free privacy plugin; it blocks trackers and ads from companies that
practice “non-consensual tracking,” in which your browser’s “do not
track” instructions are not honored.

That means that advertisers who respect your privacy choices still get
through, but everyone else is blocked from ever seeing you. And Facebook
is a major customer of those “nonconsensual tracking companies” that
hoover up your data as you traverse the web and then sell it to Facebook
to add to the dossier that Facebook compiles on your every motion.

I use Privacy Badger, and it’s a big part of how I defend myself against
the kinds of data about me that Facebook can provide to creepy
companies like Cambridge Analytica.

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/27/do-not-track.html

nativenews:

Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones – but the files can be deleted

Google could have a record of everything you have said around it for years, and you can listen to it yourself.

The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have around its products.

The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.

But it also comes with an easy way of listening to and deleting all of the information that it collects. That’s done through a special page that brings together the information that Google has on you.

It’s found by heading to Google’s history page and looking at the long list of recordings. The company has a specific audio page and another for activity on the web, which will show you everywhere Google has a record of you being on the internet.

The new portal was introduced in June 2015 and so has been active for the last year – meaning that it is now probably full of various things you have said, which you thought might have been in private.

The recordings can function as a kind of diary, reminding you of the various places and situations that you and your phone have been in. But it’s also a reminder of just how much information is collected about you, and how intimate that information can be.

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