As more communities install automated license plate readers (APLRs) to monitor vehicle traffic, there are growing concerns about the privacy and efficacy of these tools. Stories have appeared in local newspapers, such as those in St. Louis, Lo…
Last week, Google held its annual developer conference, Google I/O, and discussed new products and services that they plan to rollout. These range from new features on YouTube, Google Meet, advances in AI technology used in Google Maps, and th…
The rise of self-help apps has been a boon for those who seek assistance in dealing with issues in their lives without necessarily needing to share intimate details with others in a more traditional setting. But a new study from Mozilla sugges…
We recently highlighted the dangers of some applications that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store onto Android devices. Google is taking steps to address some of these issues ?— but is it enough?
When we wrote about state privacy laws earlier this year, Virginia, California, and Colorado were the only states with laws in place to protect consumers’ privacy. (Nevada has also had a more limited law since 2019.) Since then, Utah Govern…
Last year, we wrote an analysis on data privacy legislation updates. Last year, Mississippi didn’t pass its privacy bill and more than a dozen states had bills that are still under consideration. Iowa, Indiana, and Oklahoma are all in the p…
Over the past 20 years, there has been an increase in concerns and media attention in regards to how companies offering free services go about securing their private information. This is especially true after scandals such as Cambridge Anal…
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has recently announced that it has a new idea to replace tracking cookies. Previously, they had floated the idea of FLoC which they claimed would increase privacy. However this was not accepted by pri…
In this instalment of the collaboration between Diffbot and Avast in which we analyze consumer privacy issues globally, we’d like to take an in-depth look at company privacy policies. The main takeaway from our research is that the privacy …
The Avast team has been interested to learn about a recent proposal put forth by politicians in the US House of Representatives which calls for an end to targeted advertising, AKA surveillance advertising. We suggested this very same thing …