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Guest Post: Targeted Advertising and Ad Blocking Technologies

Guest Post: Targeted Advertising and Ad Blocking Technologies

By Rachael Bradshaw on August 24, 2021 | Tagged with Advertising, data, Data, Data Collection, data harvesting, facebook, google, Online Safety, privacy, Social media

Targeted Advertising and Ad Blocking Technologies by Laura Moberg Have you ever wondered if your phone was listening to you? In an episode from their podcast Reply All, Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt investigate the belief many people have that Facebook is listening to us through our devices and using that information to create targeted […]

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In the News: Facebook pulls VPN from Apple App Stores over accusations of data harvesting

In the News: Facebook pulls VPN from Apple App Stores over accusations of data harvesting

By elyse hill on November 20, 2018 | Tagged with anonymous browsing, Data Collection, data harvesting, facebook, In the News, VPN

Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, allow user  internet traffic to be encrypted and redirected through a private server, creating added security for user data. Many people use these forms of anonymous browsing to transfer information, or mask geographic location. But what about the companies running the VPNs? Are they not able to see the traffic […]

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In the News: ‘WaitList.dat” file is harvesting text from touch-based Windows PCs

In the News: ‘WaitList.dat” file is harvesting text from touch-based Windows PCs

By Jason Cheung on November 13, 2018 | Tagged with cybersecurity, data harvesting, digital forensics, In the News, password, side-channel

Do you have a touch-based Windows PC? If you have used the ‘Handwriting Recognition’[1] feature, text you entered through any method (keyboard or handwriting) may have been harvested and sent to Microsoft, according to ZDNet [2]. According to digital forensics and incident response expert Barnaby Skeggs, when this ‘Handwriting Recognition’ feature is turned on, a […]

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