In short, supercookies can be used in place of ordinary cookies to store user identifiers, but they are much more difficult to delete and block. This makes it nearly impossible…
Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen. Tens…
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many,…
EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments,…
As data scientists how much should we care data privacy? Well more data means better models and less data means less accurate models. So in a sense the value we…
Google Analytics is a part of the Google Marketing Platform, which allows website administrators to track and analyze website traffic. Google shares data from its Google Analytics silos with its…
As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services that invade my privacy, collect my data, and track my actions. Then the pandemic came, and I threw…
This is not the first Instagram Spying story. There have been plenty of Instagram spying story in recent years about whether apps can listen to us or watch us. But…
A new tool has been proposed for cloaking our true identities when photos are posted online to prevent profiling through facial recognition systems. Deep learning tools and facial recognition software…
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube that doesn't use the official YouTube API. Instead, it parses the YouTube site's source code to get the necessary information, similarly as projects…
