Tag: tracking
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Europe’s top court says active consent is needed for tracking cookies
Written by Natasha Lomas on TechCrunch.
“Europe’s top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid.
Consent must be obtained prior to storing or accessing non-essential cookies, such as tracking cookies for targeted advertising. Consent cannot be implied or assumed.”
“Sites that have relied upon opting EU users into ad-tracking cookies in the hopes they’ll just click okay to make the cookie banner go away are in for a rude awakening.”
Read ‘Europe’s top court says active consent is needed for tracking cookies’ on the TechCrunch site.
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That mental health app might share your data without telling you
Written by Rachel Becker on The Verge.
“33 of the 36 apps shared information that could give advertisers or data analytics companies insights into people’s digital behavior. And a few shared very sensitive information, like health diary entries, self reports about substance use, and usernames.”
“Potentially advertisers could use this to compromise someone’s privacy and sway their treatment decisions…”
Read ‘That mental health app might share your data without telling you’ on the The Verge site.
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19 December 2018 07:55 UTC
I don’t necessarily agree with the conclusion of this article, ‘“Owning your data” will not save you from data capitalism’ but I think it makes a few particularly useful points:
- “Owning” your own data can imply the ability/desire to sell it. It shouldn’t.
- It’s not just information about us as individuals that is valuable, the connective and meta data conveying our relationships to others is arguably more valuable.
- Plenty of data about us can be inferred without data specifically about us (see above.)
- Consent is impossible when you do not know how your data can be used against you.
Perhaps saying “owning and controlling your own data” (a phrase we use a lot at Ind.ie) is misleading. We use it because, right now, corporations do own and control data about us, and so it makes sense that the inverse is that we (individuals) own and control that data. Maybe the emphasis should be on control. Maybe there are better words.
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Unbothered on No, You Go Podcast
This is the first in a series of winter catch-up posts. I’ve been a listener and fan of the No, You Go podcast since their first episode at the beginning of the year. So I was giddy and nervous (and flattered!) when Katel invited me to be their guest.
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Podcasts, February 2018
In February, there were two podcasts released featuring interviews with me! Both focused on ethical design and privacy. CodeNewbie CodeNewbie Season 3 Episode 4: What should developers know about online privacy?
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