Douglas J. Leith, PhD: ‘Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When The Phone Home?’

A new (published February 24th, 2020) study – targeting web browser chattiness and privacy (whatever may be left, i.e.). Comprised of highly detailed data, and authored by Professor Douglas J. Leith PhD, School of Computer Science & Statistics, Tr… Continue reading Douglas J. Leith, PhD: ‘Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When The Phone Home?’

Mobile Carriers’ Free-Speech Rights Compromised By New Privacy Law? Read It And Weep

via Karl Bode, reporting for VICE, comes news of a lawsuit filed by telecom industry shills complaining that a Maine law requiring mobile telephone customers opt-in to having the carriers flog their data to the highest bidder is a burden to the carrie… Continue reading Mobile Carriers’ Free-Speech Rights Compromised By New Privacy Law? Read It And Weep

The Continuing Story Of Bad Corporate Behavior: Avast Antivirus Subsidiary Now Shuttering

Following the release of an excoriating report written by Joseph Cox at Vice – in which, the good Mr. Cox details the astounding bad-form by anti-virus-flogger-of-ill-repute – Avast, Nicolas Vega a news piece targeting the shutttering of the offending… Continue reading The Continuing Story Of Bad Corporate Behavior: Avast Antivirus Subsidiary Now Shuttering

Forbrukerrådet: New Study’s Conclusion – The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale

Outstanding reports – via Norwegian Forbrukerrådet detailing the systematic criminal behavior exhibited by Advertising Entites and their Ilk, with the resultant aglommeration of data which permits them to collect and store an ever increasing and … Continue reading Forbrukerrådet: New Study’s Conclusion – The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale