Google has agreed to pay a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in America for tracking users. The investigation was kicked off by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out by disabling ‘location history’. The settlement proves that we cannot trust what …
Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is a $117+ billion industry that operates behind the scenes on websites and apps. It tracks what you are looking at, no matter how private or sensitive, and records where you go. Every day it broadcasts this data about you to a host of companies continuously, enabling them to profile you. As …
Real-Time Bidding explained – and how to protect your personal data Read More »
Have you ever considered how much information Google harvests about you? Google creates ‘shadow profiles’ of every user by tracking, recording and analysing: Google has admitted to scanning your Gmail messages to compile a list of your purchases and who-knows-what-else. Just think of all the confidential financial, medical and other personal data which you have …
If you value your privacy you should stop using Gmail Read More »