When asked about why “Chat Control” may be a bad idea when it comes to privacy and personal integrity, ChatGPT responded: Why is the new EU directive called “Chat Control” a bad idea for privacy and personal integrity? Invasion of privacy: Chat Control would require …
When your service provider says: “GDPR is not an issue”, and you are left with the fallout …
There are a number of analytics tools for websites. One quite useful service, which can help you in identifying which resources are loaded, and where they are loaded from, when visiting a website (or when developing your own) is adsbydomain.fouanalytics.com. It gives you a reasonably …
Many web sites, web services, and “modern” web applications use a number of frameworks and packages. This can include Javasript, fonts (“web fonts”), CSS, and images. It is very common that these resources are served from external sources, such as Google, CDN, and so on. …
With various legal directives in place throughout the world, website owners are “off the hook” by providing a cookie disclaimer and the possibility for the visitor to “opt out”. Some websites have a rather odd approach where they refer you to a page with a …
For almost as long as “cookies” have existed on the Internet, companies have made a habit out of using them to track you, your “behavior” on the Internet, and to turn you into something “measurable”. For almost as long, there have been countermeasurements: “cookie blockers”, …
The short version of this post: Wake the fuck up and smell the maple nut crunch! The somewhat longer version follows. The Netflix “documentary”, “The Great Hack”, is a great beginning of something that will take years to be argued, debated, and (mis)understood. Thinking that …
So Spotify’s new “Privacy Policy” (an oxymoron by the way), dated Aug 17 2015, all of a sudden allows the company and possibly its partners to utilize things like media files and photos stored on your phone. “With your permission”, according to Spotify. Some posts …
Given the number of online services, Smartphone suppliers, app developers, and the amount of data we “leak” to all kinds of companies, it comes as no surprise that it is nearly impossible to keep things separated. Photos you take of your children, family, or colleagues …