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July 16, 2021 California’s attorney general Rob Bonta is getting tougher on privacy enforcement when it comes to use of a controversial tool enabling universal opt-out from data collection. In the past two weeks, the AG’s office sent at least 10 and possibly more than 20 companies letters that call on them to honor the GPC, according to four lawyers with clients in the digital publishing and advertising industry. “We all have clients who got some [letters],” said Alysa Hutnik, part...

Is that Android or iPhone app safe to download? 3 red flags to look out for CNET 13 hrs ago Shelby Brown © Provided by CNET Dont download new apps without checking for these warning signs. Sarah Tew/CNET If you dont read an apps terms of service agreement before you click to accept or agree, youre not alone. Very few people actually take the time to dive into the text of what an app or website is asking them to agree to, according to research. In one study, participants unk...

GitHub adds HTTP header to block Googles FLoC Apr 28, 2021 03:08 EDT with 6 comments GitHub has decided to join the list of companies that are opposing Googles upcoming changes. Earlier this year, Google announced it will stop tracking individuals via ads and will implement a new system called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). Now, GitHub has announced that it will block FLoC too. The company published an article confirming its intention to add a HTTP header to b...

WordPress joins the growing number of companies opposing Google's new FLoC system designed to replace cookies. WordPress says the system will lead to discrimination and has decided to disable it.

DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption covers more domains than our current model. Browsers and websites are moving away from issues that created a need for more granular ruleset maintenance. Mixed content is now blocked in major browsers Different domains for secure connection are now an older habit (i.e. secure.google.com), further removing the need for granular maintenance on HTTPS Everywhere rulesets Chrome’s Manifest V3 declarativeNetRequest API will force the web extensions to have a ruleset...