March 03, 2020

GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who's taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.

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January 16, 2020

Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it's not just dating apps that are doing it...

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August 08, 2019

Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.

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March 28, 2019

Broadband providers told to explain how they handle consumer data

The FTC launched a broad inquiry to find out what data they collect, why, who they share it with, and how consumers can change or delete it.

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March 14, 2019

Google needs breaking up, says news chief

And Oracle accused Google of creating shadow profiles of even non-users. Theirs are just two of 85 responses to an Australian inquiry.

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January 18, 2019

Did you know you can see the ad boxes Facebook sorts us into?

...or that they can edit the (often inaccurate) pigeon-holes Facebook likes to put us in, a study found.

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December 12, 2018

Phones are selling location data from “trusted” apps

Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US, updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times has found.

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January 03, 2018

Ad scripts track users via browser password managers

Advertisers have adopted a sly new technique to track web users that can’t be stopped by private browsing, or even changing devices.

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October 19, 2017

How individuals can use online ad buying to spy on you

It's not just the advertisers who can track you

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