Google’s plan to block cookies comes under attack
An industry group has complained to the EU, claiming the move is "anti-competitive"
A coalition of digital marketing firms and others is vigorously lobbying against Google's plan to phase out tracking cookies. The tech giant wants to replace cookies with alternative technologies which Google cla... Read more
Google wants to replace tracking cookies with AI
Google has shared its plans to eventually move away from using cookies for building user profiles for marketing. Instead, the company wants to use artificial intelligence to show users relevant ads.
To this end, the company has built a new AI called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). Google c... Read more
Privacy activist sues Oracle and Salesforce
In the Supreme Court of England and Wales, software companies Salesforce and Oracle were sued for 15 billion pounds (16.5 billion euros). The plaintiff believes that the two companies are violating GDPR legislation by collecting and reselling personal data.
The main plaintiff is UK privacy activ... Read more
Google reverses samesite cookies feature on Chrome
Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, Google will immediately reverse the recently added privacy feature regarding samesite cookies. This is to prevent that certain websites are suddenly no longer accessible to users.
At the beginning of this year, Google introduced the feature for a number o... Read more
Google wants to get rid of third-party Chrome cookies in two years
With the aim of improving the privacy of internet users, Google announced a new initiative at the end of 2019: Privacy Sandbox. One of the aspects addressed in this initiative, which will be given priority in the coming years, is ending support for cookies from external parties.
Google is not th... Read more
Google Chrome gets improved privacy control for cookies
Google has announced new privacy updates for its browser Google Chrome. The update will make significant changes to how Chrome handles cookies and users' privacy on the Internet, reports TechCrunch.
The update should give users more control over how their data is processed. Cookies are very useful,... Read more
New macOS malware uses cookies to steal cryptic currency
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 security researchers have discovered a new type of malware designed to steal cryptographic currency. CookieMiner focuses specifically on MacBooks and the cookies associated with their login details for crypto fairs such as Binance, Bitstamp, Bittrex and Coinbase.
The new m... Read more
Mozilla Firefox will soon be blocking even more tracking methods
Mozilla has announced a series of measures to address the harmful effects of adtracking. To this end, the company today announced its new Firefox Web Browser Privacy Policy. It also contains a lot of information about the new tracking policy of the browser.
This is a Wiki document in which the compa... Read more