“Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps for Android and iOS, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found. These apps, which don’t disclose their connection to the company or reveal that they feed user data to Sensor Tower’s products, have more than 35 million downloads.”
Source : Sensor Tower Secretly Owns Ad Blocker And VPN Apps That Collect User Data
“La Présidente de la CNIL met en demeure les sociétés EDF et ENGIE en raison du non-respect de certaines des exigences relatives au recueil du consentement à la collecte des données de consommation issues des compteurs communicants LINKY, ainsi que pour une durée de conservation excessive des données de consommation.”
“The documents, from a subsidiary of the antivirus giant Avast called Jumpshot, shine new light on the secretive sale and supply chain of peoples’ internet browsing histories. They show that the Avast antivirus program installed on a person’s computer collects data, and that Jumpshot repackages it into various different products that are then sold to many of the largest companies in the world. Some past, present, and potential clients include Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pepsi, Home Depot, Condé Nast, Intuit, and many others. Some clients paid millions of dollars for products that include a so-called « All Clicks Feed, » which can track user behavior, clicks, and movement across websites in highly precise detail.”
Source : Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data – VICE
“Companies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across the internet and around the world, and even to peer into their genomes. The benefits of such advances have been apparent for years; the costs — in anonymity, even autonomy — are now becoming clearer. The boundaries of privacy are in dispute, and its future is in doubt. Citizens, politicians and business leaders are asking if societies are making the wisest tradeoffs. The Times is embarking on this monthslong project to explore the technology and where it’s taking us, and to convene debate about how it can best help realize human potential.”
“There is the next frontier in political advertising: your personal location data, collected from apps you’ve downloaded that then take this sensitive information and sell it to third parties — including political campaigns. Love it or hate it, digital strategists see this location data as part of the future of political campaigns, as candidates and advocacy groups harness your personal whereabouts and leverage it to try to win your support. One campaign might know if you’ve passed by one of their lawn signs recently. Another might track whether you’ve been in a specific Catholic church in Dubuque, Iowa. Forces behind Trump, who three years ago said he considered data to be “overrated” in politics, are exploring this next iteration of digital campaign tools. And with the incumbent president’s vastly superior resources and innate appetite for digital experimentation, many leading Democrats are concerned that it is the GOP — not the digitally pioneering party of Barack Obama — that is mastering Silicon Valley’s tricks ahead of what’s expected to be the most expensive US presidential election ever.”
Source : How Trump allies are using your phone’s location to try and win your vote – Vox
“All mobile phone users in China registering new SIM cards must submit to facial recognition scans, according to a new rule that went into effect across the country on Sunday […].
China’s education ministry said in September it would “curb and regulate” the use of facial recognition after parents grew angry when facial recognition software was installed without their knowledge at a university in Nanjing to monitor students’ attendance and focus during class.”
Source : China brings in mandatory facial recognition for mobile phone users | World news | The Guardian
“By default, Homebrew sends information to Google Analytics, you can disable that with the following command using the terminal (which you should have open after installing Homebrew): brew analytics off”
Source : webxray
“The data shared included:
- drug names entered into Drugs.com were sent to Google’s ad unit DoubleClick.
- symptoms inputted into WebMD’s symptom checker, and diagnoses received, including “drug overdose”, were shared with Facebook.
- menstrual and ovulation cycle information from BabyCentre ended up with Amazon Marketing, among others.
- keywords such as “heart disease” and “considering abortion” were shared from sites like the British Heart Foundation, Bupa and Healthline to companies including Scorecard Research and Blue Kai (owned by software giant Oracle).
In eight cases (with the exception of Healthline and Mind), a specific identifier linked to the web browser was also transmitted — potentially allowing the information to be tied to an individual — and tracker cookies were dropped before consent was given. Healthline confirmed that it also shared unique identifiers with third parties.
None of the websites tested asked for this type of explicit and detailed consent.”
Source : How top health websites are sharing sensitive data with advertisers | Financial Times
“le projet Kivaou, financé par l’Agence nationale de la recherche et piloté par Sagem (désormais Safran) et le ministère de l’intérieur, a été conçu pour mettre au point un « outil de surveillance embarqué permettant d’indexer au fil de l’eau tous les passants et d’enregistrer leur biométrie faciale ». Selon nos informations, des enquêteurs ont parfois profité de ces expérimentations pour faire progresser leurs investigations.[…]
« La plus-value policière de cette technologie [reconnaissance faciale] ne fait aucun doute », peut-on lire dans une récente note du Centre de recherche de l’école des officiers de la gendarmerie. Selon son auteur, elle pourrait même « mettre fin à des années de polémiques sur le contrôle au faciès, puisque le contrôle d’identité serait permanent et général ».”
Source : Sous la pression des industriels et des forces de l’ordre, la reconnaissance faciale progresse
“Les baby-boomers sont-ils plus sages que les millennials? Les millenials sont-ils tous des enfants gâtés? Ces étiquettes qui collent aux générations sont souvent fausses. Mais nous sommes toujours pris dans l’air du temps, comme le rappelle la définition sociologique du terme «génération»: groupe d’âge façonné par des événements et des influences historiques et sociaux communs.”
Source : Voici ce que vos goûts musicaux disent de vous | 24 heures
© 2024 no-Flux
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑
