#cybertracking

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Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users and Small Businesses

Facebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of small businesses. This is a laughable attempt from Facebook to

Facebook’s campaign is targeting a new AppTrackingTransparency feature on iPhones that will require apps to request permission from users before tracking them across other apps and websites or sharing their information with and from third parties. Requiring trackers to request your consent before stalking you across the Internet should be an obvious baseline, and we applaud Apple for this change. But Facebook, having built a massive empire around the concept of tracking everything you do by letting applications sell and share your data across a shady set of third-party companies, would like users and policymakers to believe otherwise.

#FuckFacebook

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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibili

Students, would you allow your school to do this?

Amazon workers, have you been asked for this yet?

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Maine Law Leaves Room for Unchecked Police Technology Use — Government Technology

An unusual state law means law enforcement won’t have to tell the public whether or not they are using cutting-edge surveillance technologie

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Whistleblower reveals info on companies buying and selling your location data

"CBS This Morning" investigates the perfectly legal means by which advertisers track your location through your phone – and how criminals

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Email Trackers Are Watching Your Inbox. Here's How To Block Them.

You can tell who is using email trackers on you, and it's usually unsettling.

Do you value your privacy?