Google’s Chrome browser will begin testing a new feature that limits cross-site tracking by restricting website access to third-party cookies by default. The new Tracking Protection feature will be rolled out to 1% of Chrome users globally on Jan. 4, the company said in a Thursday (Dec....
A Dutch consumer rights group is suing Amazon over its data tracking practices. Stichting Data Bescherming Nederland (SDBN), a consumer rights group in the Netherlands, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the tech giant of violating the European Union’s privacy law, The Wall...
With the crypto industry under fire, some blockchain projects are also on the chopping block. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. After all, blockchains — distributed ledgers whose promise has been to transform business models — do not necessarily need cryptos. Public blockchains do;...
Meta will be looking into new ads that don’t use advanced targeting, meaning less user data would be used or needed, a report said Friday (June 3). The ads would not use “any anonymized personal info” according to two ad buyers. Called “Basic Ads,” it...
July 05, 2018
By the cultural standards of today, the technology is ancient, born amid hot jazz and bootleg booze, when memories of the slaughters of the “The Great War” — now called World War I — were still fresh enough to hurt. History, though, is often wonderfully contradictory, even contrarian, and as the internet age matures, it is […]
April 24, 2024
Google has once again delayed plans to eliminate third-party cookies on its Chrome browser. The tech giant made that announcement Tuesday (April 23) evening, soon after a British regulator expressed concerns about Google’s proposed alternative to using cookies, known as the Privacy Sandbox. Third-party cookies — pieces of software that track internet users as they browse — have […]
December 14, 2023
Google’s Chrome browser will begin testing a new feature that limits cross-site tracking by restricting website access to third-party cookies by default. The new Tracking Protection feature will be rolled out to...
October 18, 2023
A Dutch consumer rights group is suing Amazon over its data tracking practices. Stichting Data Bescherming Nederland (SDBN), a consumer rights group in the Netherlands, has filed a class-action lawsuit...
June 05, 2022
Meta will be looking into new ads that don’t use advanced targeting, meaning less user data would be used or needed, a report said Friday (June 3). The ads would...
