#webxray — Public Fediverse posts
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#Google , #Microsoft , #Meta All #Tracking You Even When You #OptOut , According to an Independent #Audit
The #webXray #California #Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March & found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of #cookie tracking. California has stringent & well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (#CCPA )…opt out of the sale of their info
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#Google , #Microsoft , #Meta All #Tracking You Even When You #OptOut , According to an Independent #Audit
The #webXray #California #Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March & found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of #cookie tracking. California has stringent & well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (#CCPA )…opt out of the sale of their info
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#Google , #Microsoft , #Meta All #Tracking You Even When You #OptOut , According to an Independent #Audit
The #webXray #California #Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March & found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of #cookie tracking. California has stringent & well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (#CCPA )…opt out of the sale of their info
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#Google , #Microsoft , #Meta All #Tracking You Even When You #OptOut , According to an Independent #Audit
The #webXray #California #Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March & found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of #cookie tracking. California has stringent & well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (#CCPA )…opt out of the sale of their info
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#Google , #Microsoft , #Meta All #Tracking You Even When You #OptOut , According to an Independent #Audit
The #webXray #California #Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March & found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of #cookie tracking. California has stringent & well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (#CCPA )…opt out of the sale of their info
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#Privacy #DataProtection #WebTracking #WebXray: "A lot of this leaking data is not just potentially embarrassing, or perhaps harmful to career prospects if it were to be made public, but outright illegal. Over the past half-decade, the European Union, a number of US states, and other governments around the world have enacted laws that restrict what kind of data websites can collect, or require a company to receive consent from a user before it does so. Every day, tech companies may violate those laws when, say, search engines and medical websites trample HIPAA by allowing search logs of users’ ailments to be tracked, documented, and sometimes monetized by companies like Google, or running roughshod over consent rules by turning a blind eye to advertising cookies embedded in publishers’ websites.
This, Libert says, is why he developed WebXray, a crude prototype of which he’s demoing for me right now. It’s a search engine for rooting out specific privacy violations anywhere on the web. By searching for a specific term or website, you can use WebXray to see which sites are tracking you, and where all that data goes. Its mission, he says, is simple; “I want to give privacy enforcers equal technology as privacy violators.” To level the playing field.
On Thursday, Libert plans to launch the website to the public, so anyone can get a sense of how sprawling the web of privacy violations being made every day really is, along with a premium tier for regulators and attorneys, who can use the tool to assess those violations and address them. Libert knows a thing or two about both search engines and digital privacy. Until last year, he was a staff engineer on the privacy team at Google, which is of course the operator of the largest search engine in the world—and the largest collector of data of the billions of people who use it."
https://www.wired.com/story/webxray-online-privacy-violations/