Felix Krause, a privacy consultant and one time Google engineer has an article examining how Meta tracks users when they follow links from Meta websites using the iOS apps: iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause (krausefx.com) …
The obvious question is “Why only New Zealand”
If it is harmful content in New Zealand then surely most of the rest of the world would consider it harmful. And if it can be done in New Zealand – why not the rest of the world – the Big Tech have enough money: Social media companies promise to …
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Now bad reviews are becoming a cyber criminal’s choice of attack UPDATED 20 July 2022
Update 20 July 2022 – Amazon is taking positive action against fake reviews I am sure you check the reviews on Amazon products before you buy, I know I do, and it has influenced my buying decisions more than once. So it is obviously important that these can be relied …
Facebook believes in privacy but will not let you strip tracking from its URLS
Bruce Schneier has an interesting short article on his news feed about URL tracking and Facebook. Web browsers such as Firefox and Brave have the functionality to strip URL tracking data from the URLs you are using to navigate the web – stopping the company that was tracking you, tracking …
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Anonymous browsing – not anymore
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have written a paper, which they will present at the Usenix Security Symposium in Boston, demonstrating how threat actors (or governments or law enforcement) could de-anonymise a users from their browsing habits. The attackers would analyse browsing activity and state to determine …
