August 04, 2017

Google wants to track you in real life – privacy group says, ‘No way!’

Google plans to use AI tool to grab details of billions of in-store credit card transaction.

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May 25, 2017

Google debuts a new way to follow your footsteps around the web

New machine-learning tool aims to deliver even more information to Google's advertisers about your 'consumer journey'

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May 22, 2017

What does Twitter think you’re interested in? Now you can find out

Twitter has tweaked its settings so that you can see what it thinks you're interested in so that advertisers can target you

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November 16, 2016

Shanghai surprise as cheap Android devices ‘phone home’ to China

Sending texts, call logs and other PII to a server in Shanghai without consent 'a mistake', says firmware provider

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November 09, 2016

Facebook suspends plans to collect WhatsApp user data in the UK

Consumer rights 'aren't properly protected', says the ICO as it says users should be given 'ongoing control' over their data

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July 01, 2016

My Activity: a tool to see what Google knows about you

Neither fairy dust nor Santa will keep you from Google ads, but it's got a new place to find out what it knows about you and how.

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February 29, 2016

How mobile apps leak user data that’s supposedly off-limits

Ad networks give away data on age, gender, whether we have kids, income, political affiliation, marital status and more, researchers found.

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September 30, 2015

Google to give marketers the ability to target us via email address

Customer Match will enable advertisers to get to us via our email addresses, which can be matched to signed-in users of its search engine, Gmail or YouTube.

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September 30, 2015

Windows 10 is NOT spying on you, Microsoft says

...but Windows will continue to collect your data, be it about system and application crashes or personalization data collected by Cortana.

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