Tag: privacy

• Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

  July 16, 2025

  The uneasy Web 2.0 truce between social networks, legacy media, and brands is falling apart. Once it was held together by ad tech. But advertising spends keep going up, brand… more ›

• Everything is now opaque

  July 12, 2025

  Your dashboards are lying. Attribution is dead. Marketing is now a black box – and if you’re forgettable, you’re finished. What used to be a competition for visibility is becoming a battle for inclusion. We… more ›

• In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data

  July 3, 2025

  Brazil is piloting dWallet, a program that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could deepen inequality. The project is administered by Dataprev, a state-owned company… more ›

• This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup

  June 18, 2025

  The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites. https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2025/06/17/this-is-how-you-stop-data-trackers-from-sucking-up-your-health-data more ›

• Two-Factor Authentication Codes Take Insecure Path to Users

  June 17, 2025

  An investigation into the complexity of the global telecom system shows weaknesses in the transmission of secret codes sent via SMS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/two-factor-authentication-codes-take-insecure-path-to-users?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MDA3MjI1NywiZXhwIjoxNzUwNjc3MDU3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWFkzV1dEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJENTY5QzIyNzE4NUM0NkM4OTgxMjBGMUI2QTBFNDIwQSJ9.DVIEfSgG1GrhW7bcbImfrZ2LeYhkmPbTC9SlfwmVe-g&leadSource=uverify%20wall more ›

• Unplugged Mysteries

  June 1, 2025

  Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins

  May 2, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8dqrbSg What does it mean to have a private life? Our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins, a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed… more ›

• Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

  March 15, 2025

  If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that… more ›

• Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

  January 9, 2025

  This article was produced with support from WIRED. https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/ more ›

• We need global coordination on data, not just AI. Here’s why

  November 19, 2024

  World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/06/need-global-coordination-on-data-not-just-ai/ more ›