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August 25, 2018

Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR

The number of tracking cookies on EU news sites has gone down by 22% according to a report by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, who looked at cookie usage across EU news sites in two phases, in April 2018 and July 2018, pre and post the introduction of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

"J'ai voulu reprendre le contrôle de mes données"

La récupération par un cabinet de conseil politique des données personnelles de plusieurs dizaines de millions d'utilisateurs de Facebook a conduit de nombreux internautes à questionner leur présence sur le réseau social. Les réponses vont de la colère à la résignation. Reportage Abde[...]

Going FLOSS-only on Android

Someone recently asked me how my experience has been with a couple of ROMs I have tried on my Android phone. Which reminded me that I need to write a post de...

Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - Motherboard

A company that sells surveillance software to parents and employers left “terabytes of data” including photos, audio recordings, text messages and web history, exposed in a poorly-protected Amazon S3 bucket.

mjg59 | I've bought some more awful IoT stuff
Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance

More than one billion people use Facebook to connect with others and maintain social relationships. But new research suggests that the social networking ...

Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently | Android Central

Google has just publicly disclosed that it discovered an extremely serious vulnerability in Epic's first Fortnite installer for Android that allowed any app on your phone to download and install anything in the background.