Over 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-80-percent-of-the-top-websites-leak-user-searches-to-advertisers/
One reason you might see ads for things you talk about on the phone https://medium.com/@patrickberlinquette/one-reason-you-might-see-ads-for-things-you-talk-about-on-the-phone-cbc848cf035b
Amazon’s empire of surveillance: Through recent billion-dollar acquisitions of health care services and smart home devices, the tech giant is leveraging its monopoly power to track ‘every aspect’ of our lives https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-empire-of-surveillance-leveraging-monopoly-power-tracking-purchases-2022-8
Google Tracks 39 Types of Private Data, the Highest Among Big Tech Companies https://stockapps.com/blog/google-tracks-39-types-of-private-data-the-highest-among-big-tech-companies/
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html
Your smartphone could recognise you just by the way you hold it https://www.newscientist.com/article/2334048-your-smartphone-could-recognise-you-just-by-the-way-you-hold-it/
Apple wants to triple its revenue from ads business, likely expanding Search Ads to Maps app https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/14/apple-more-ads-money/
New Ontario ID system sounds privacy alarm bells https://ontherecordnews.ca/new-ontario-id-system-sounds-privacy-alarm-bells/
Does your rewards card know if you’re pregnant? Privacy experts sound the alarm https://www.npr.org/2022/08/13/1115414467/consumer-data-abortion-roe-wade-pregnancy-test-rewards-card-target-walgreens
WiFi probing exposes smartphone users to tracking, info leaks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wifi-probing-exposes-smartphone-users-to-tracking-info-leaks/
Up to 90% of governmental websites include cookies of third-party trackers https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-governmental-websites-cookies-third-party-trackers.html
Users beware: Apps are using a loophole in privacy law to track kids’ phones https://www.wfae.org/science-technology/2022-06-16/users-beware-apps-are-using-a-loophole-in-privacy-law-to-track-kids-phones
Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/release/3461
White House Developing National Strategy to Increase Data Collection as Privacy Tech Improves https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2022/06/white-house-developing-national-strategy-increase-data-collection-privacy-tech-improves/367941/
Internal Documents Show Amazon’s Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgn73/internal-documents-show-amazons-dystopian-system-for-tracking-workers-every-minute-of-their-shifts