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Privacy International files complaints against seven companies for wide-scale and systematic infringements of data protection law  ​​​​​​​

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Formal GDPR complaint against IAB Europe’s “cookie wall” and GDPR consent guidance

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How do tracking companies know what you did last summer?

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Most cookie banners are annoying and deceptive. This is not consent.

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Why am I really seeing that ad? The answer might be Real Time Bidding (RTB)

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UK ICO investigates Deliveroo customer complaints

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Microsoft Windows 10 tracks users

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Oracle Data Cloud division lays off staff

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Google launches encryption for lower-powered phones

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Complex advertising system enables malvertising

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Study finds platform manipulators falsify metadata

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The internet and the loss of control

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Google cancels Chrome extension APIs that blocked adblockers

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Microsoft Office collects personal data

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Facebook changes block adblockers

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Freedom from Facebook exploits Facebook tools to aid whistleblowers

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Apple limits sensor access

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Advertising fuels rise in child gamblers

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Digital billboards track engagement via facial recognition

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Facebook allows advertisers to target "white genocide conspiracy theory"

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Video: Is your vote for sale? Political advertisers think so

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Swedish healthcare advice line call data left exposed on open web

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Giant data dumps publish details of 2.2 billion usernames

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5G vulnerability enables low-cost location and phone activity tracking

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Apple FaceTime bug permits audio and video spying

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Japan authorises government hacking survey of Internet of Things

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UK ICO fines Uber £385,000 for 2016 data breach

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Security flaw exposes Twitter Android users' "protected status" account tweets

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Vulnerabilities persist in airline reservations systems despite repeated warnings

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Nearly four years of call data left exposed on open web