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 …
Edward Snowden and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges have recently come together in a video conference call moderated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. In the video, the group talks about the past eight year…
Part of the ongoing collaboration between Diffbot and Avast includes the ongoing research into privacy issues for consumers. As part of this research, we’ve become interested in how an individual’s privacy could vary throughout the world ba…
It was announced recently that MI6, the UK’s secret intelligence service that you are familiar with if you’ve ever seen a James Bond movie, would begin partnering with technology companies to speed up their innovation and keep pace with Rus…
At the beginning of the pandemic, Jon Callas was a technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Now, after nearly two years of dealing with Covid-19, Callas is the Director of Technology…
With the holidays right around the corner, many people are, like me, really looking forward to spending more time with family and friends. Another thing I’m looking forward to is the food we will be eating — specifically, the homemade cooki…
There has never been a more important time to protect your online privacy than now.Data breaches continue to expose millions of users and their passwords, ransomware attacks remain prevalent, and the Covid-19 pandemic has motivated criminal…
Facebook recently announced that they will be shutting down its facial recognition in the coming weeks. You may have seen this feature in action if you have ever uploaded a picture to Facebook and seen how it can suggest people to tag withi…