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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.
Google has been hit by a lawsuit alleging that it violates user privacy by collecting location data via various means - and claiming that Google makes it nearly "Impossible" for users to opt out of such data tracking. The lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleges that Google uses "Deceptive and unfair conduct" to obtain Android users' location data via various applications, services and technologies, which is then used for advertising purposes.
The US state of Arizona filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Google of committing fraud by being deceptive about gathering location data. Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich said the suit resulted from an investigation launched two years ago after a media report that Google had ways of knowing where users were even if they opted not to share location information with the internet firm.
Utah, North Dakota and South Dakota were the first U.S. states to launch voluntary phone apps that enable public health departments to track the location and connections of people who test positive for the coronavirus. Nearly a month after Utah launched its Healthy Together app to augment the state's contact-tracing efforts by tracking phone locations, state officials confirmed Monday that they haven't done any contact tracing out of the app yet.
Privacy pressure group Noyb has filed a legal complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming the Android Advertising ID on every Android device is "Personal data" as defined by the EU's GDPR and that this data is illegally processed. The complaint against Google, which was filed with the Austrian Data Protection Authority, is based on the claim that Google's Android operating system generates the advertising ID without user choice as required by GDPR. "In essence, you buy a new Android phone, but by adding a tracking ID they ship you a tracking device," said Noyb lawyer Stefano Rossetti.
The latest release of the Vivaldi web browser includes one of the easiest to use tracker blockers on the market.