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PS: this is not even due to the United States's terrible privacy laws alone. Under Trump congress killed the regulatory rules that would have stopped this specific practice krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/why-is…

NEW: We watched as privacy advocates geofenced an abortion clinic in Florida, where the procedure remains legal, and identified specific devices that came from Alabama, where it is not. Inside the wild world of phone tracking data for sale. notus.org/technology/cel…



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No, hashing still doesn’t make your data anonymous: bit.ly/3WgR7V4 /1


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New from 404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that works on Reddit thanks to its AI deal. Try to search for Reddit results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, or a bunch of others you won't get full results. Further monopoly on valuable information 404media.co/google-is-the-…


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Private Browsing 2.0 – the details on Safari’s latest, industry-leading privacy protections: webkit.org/blog/15697/pri…


Apple requires that any alternate iOS browser engine block third-party cookies and partition state. Interesting leverage point. I wonder whether those requirements will advance as WebKit's default tracking protections expand. developer.apple.com/support/altern…

s_englehardt's tweet image. Apple requires that any alternate iOS browser engine block third-party cookies and partition state.

Interesting leverage point. I wonder whether those requirements will advance as WebKit's default tracking protections expand.

developer.apple.com/support/altern…

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📢 Announcement! I will be presenting my work “CookieGraph" /w @sansib @umaarr6 @zubair_shafiq @s_englehardt @carmelatroncoso at @acm_ccs. Join me in Session 10F on November 29, 1515-1530 to hear about our work on first-party tracking cookies. #ACMCCS2023 #Privacy #CookieGraph

Shaoor_Munir's tweet image. 📢 Announcement! I will be presenting my work “CookieGraph" /w @sansib @umaarr6 @zubair_shafiq @s_englehardt @carmelatroncoso at @acm_ccs. Join me in Session 10F on November 29, 1515-1530 to hear about our work on first-party tracking cookies. #ACMCCS2023 #Privacy #CookieGraph

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Exciting Web Privacy News The Web is undergoing a significant advance in privacy at the moment. In recent weeks, the Chrome browser enabled cross-site storage partitioning. That is: many features in Chrome that used to leak data between websites, no longer leak. In Chrome 117,…

privacytests's tweet image. Exciting Web Privacy News

The Web is undergoing a significant advance in privacy at the moment. In recent weeks, the Chrome browser enabled cross-site storage partitioning. That is: many features in Chrome that used to leak data between websites, no longer leak.

In Chrome 117,…

Wild. MTA site allows anyone to query the past 7 days of ride history associated with a credit card number. You know, the number that creepy server at a restaurant might jot down, that is easily accessible to abusive spouses, etc.

New: I tracked the precise movements of an NYC subway rider. Saw what specific time they got on and at what station. It became obvious which station was nearest to their home. This was all because of a 'feature' on the MTA website Wide open to abuse 404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-…



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Chrome is partitioning storage in 115 🪣|🪣 If you use APIs like LocalStorage, Clear-Site-Data, SharedWorker, etc. embedded across sites, then there's testing instructions and we've extended the deprecation trial if you need extra time to update ⤵ developer.chrome.com/blog/storage-p…


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