Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Everyone knows your location
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
Perspective | It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally is astounding.
Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You
Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to. The music streaming giant now wants phone sensor information to determine if users are moving or standing still, GPS location, photos, contacts and much more.
How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real
On January 15, a Norweigian Consumer Council (NCC) investigative report exposed the ways that Grindr, OKCupid, and eight other apps are collecting and sharing extremely sensitive personal data.
Why you should bet big on privacy | TechCrunch
Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York, and the next site you visit shows you ads for New York hotels? As it turns out, on my computer, there were more than 130 companies tracking my every move. These companies are basically engaging in mass surveillance.
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@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server
Your Social Media Fingerprint
Without your consent most major web platforms leak whether you are logged in. This allows any website to detect on which platforms you're signed up. Since there are lots of platforms with specific demographics an attacker could reason about your personality, too.
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?
Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole
Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent.
Opinion | It’s Time to Panic About Privacy (Published 2019)
We claim to want it, companies claim to provide it, but we all just accept that, well, you have no privacy online.
Privacy is a collective concern
When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too.
New: a new tool called DecryptAds unmasks the shadowy world of ad companies that track your phone's location. It is incredibly difficult to investigate this world, but DecryptAds pulls together public data in a wholly unique way to make digging through this possible 404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy…
This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location
www.404media.coSo this is one of the cool things about apps in the Atmosphere. They have to declare what stuff in your account they're going to touch.
ATStore
You find a cool new Atmosphere app. You click sign in. And then... a wall of permission requests you didn't expect. 😬 ATStore fixes that. Every app listing now has a "scopes" badge, tap it to see what the app will request before you ever log in. ⚠️ Requesting dangerous scopes? Get warned.
