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British charities are sharing information about people visiting their websites with adtech data brokers, according to a report. The alleged badness boils down to charity websites having tracking beacons embedded within them, little snippets of code that tell an advertiser who opened a particular website or webpage.

Google's own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn't want to be followed until a 2018 Associated Press investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case. The files, unsealed late last week, reveal that Google knew it had a massive problem on its hands after an AP article published in August 2018 explained how the company continued to track users' whereabouts even after they had disabled the feature Google called "Location history."

According to a report by ABI Research, asset tracking device shipments will see a 51% year-on-year device shipment growth rate through 2024. Expanding LPWAN coverage, technological maturity, and the associated miniaturization of sophisticated devices are key to moving asset tracking from traditionally high-value markets to low-value high-volume markets, which will account for most of the tracker connection and shipment numbers.

As the COVID pandemic drives large enterprises to lean heavily on cloud computing solutions to enable their global workforce, Kublr and cloudtamer.io jointly announced an integration between their respective platforms to help customers better manage their cloud-native and container-based IT infrastructure. Cloudtamer.io provides a multi-cloud governance solution to make cloud account management, budget enforcement, and continuous compliance simpler for public and private sector organizations of all sizes.

Mozilla has announced a new Firefox protection feature to stymie a new user tracking technique lately employed by online advertisers: redirect tracking. By implementing anti-fingerprinting protections, an anti tracking policy, Enhanced Tracking Protection blocking trackers, cross-site and third-party tracking cookies, Mozilla has, slowly but surely, been enhancing Firefox tracking protections for years.

During the pre-taped keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the company promised to pump up data protection even more with gobs of new features in its upcoming iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and Safari releases. The big ones include the option for users to decline apps' ad tracking.

Many providers of tracking services advertise secure data protection by generalizing datasets and anonymizing data in this way. Tracking services collect large amounts of data of internet users.

API Fortress announces Bloodhound, a lightweight API debugging gateway that is free to download and open source. Bloodhound allows teams to route API calls to any logger for comprehensive analysis to uncover solutions to difficult bugs, or test an API in ways not possible before.

Google faces a $5 billion class-action lawsuit over claims that it has been collecting people's browsing information without their knowledge even when using the incognito browsing mode that's meant to keep their online activities private. The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, alleges that Google compiles user data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps, regardless of whether users click on Google-supported ads, according to a report in Reuters.

Arizona has filed suit against Google over tracking users' locations even after they've turned tracking off, claiming that the advertising-fueled tech titan has a "Complex web of settings and purported 'consents'" that enable it to furtively milk us for sweet, sweet ad dollars. This is the way location tracking works: Android users can turn it off with a slider button in the Location section under Settings supposedly.