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| Mar 12, 2021 | What is Global Privacy Control? How organizations are teaming up to prevent your personal data from being sold | The Global Privacy Control (GPC) feature is a setting in some browsers and plug-ins to tell websites not to sell your personal data.
GPC is found in a small number of browsers and plug-ins, and compliance is optional.
The GPC is being devel... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | What is Global Privacy Control? How organizations are teaming up to prevent your personal data from being sold | The Global Privacy Control feature is a setting in some browsers and plug-ins designed to protect you against websites selling your personal data. Bill Hinton/Getty Images
The Global Privacy Control (GPC) feature is a setting in some browse... |
| Nov 7, 2020 | What your business needs to know about CPRA | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After achieving a narrower than expected mandate ... |
| Nov 7, 2020 | What your business needs to know about CPRA | After achieving a narrower than expected mandate of 56% on November 3, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has now passed. This new act overhauls the preexisting California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and is a landmark moment for consu... |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Tech-publisher coalition backs new push for browser-level privacy controls | Remember ‘Do Not Track‘? The tracker-loving adtech industry hopes you don’t recall that decade+ doomed attempt to bake user-friendly privacy controls into browsers. But a coalition of privacy-forward tech companies, publishers and advocacy ... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | Interview with Rob Shavell, CEO and co-founder of DeleteMe | A look into data, data collection, and what we can do to protect our data online
In this new, digital world, it's safe to say almost all of us have endless amounts of data on ourselves on the internet. Some of it is related to ad data, othe... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | It's Data Privacy Day and Facebook knows you're reading this | A new global study conducted by Microsoft across 12,000 people shows that most internet users still don't believe they're aware of all the data that's being collected about them.
For example, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ know you've read t... |
| Jun 12, 2014 | Here's how to defend yourself from Facebook's new browser-spying campaign | UPDATE (6/13 1:12 AM PST) An earlier version of this story suggested that Facebook transmits the browsing data of its members to its advertiser partners. In fact, it’s Facebook that uses the data to match its partners’ ads with consumers wh... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | How to use 23andMe without giving up your genetic privacy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sarah A. Downey is an attorney, privacy analyst, ... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | DuckDuckGo, PRISM, and the new business of privacy | One the most valuable things in the world right now is your data.
For Facebook and Google, your data is a window into your soul, your interests, and your buying habits. It’s how they can convince advertisers that giving them money makes sen... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | DuckDuckGo, PRISM, and the new business of privacy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
One the most valuable things in the world right n... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | MaskMe: Finally a way to use the web without surrendering all your personal info | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s an obvious reality about privacy breaches:... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Do Not Track standards do not coalesce | The advertising industry is in a huff over Mozilla’s plans to support "The Cookie Clearinghouse" at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School. The Cookie Clearinghouse starts with some browser behavior chang... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Gizmox Raises $7.5M, Appoints New CEO To Help Enterprises Port IT Apps To Mobile Via HTML5 | When it comes to consumer apps, the debate over HTML5 vs. native has seen native win a couple of key rounds recently, with a number of high-profile tech companies eschewing the open standard because of performance issues. However, when it c... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Boston-Area Deals: Life Image, MC10, Gizmox, Nanigans, Verivo | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 3:45 p.m.
Several private companies around Massachusetts are making fundraising news:
—Newton-based Life Image has raised $15 million in fresh capital. The company say... |
| Dec 11, 2012 | DoNotTrackMe gets big update to protect you from those wicked web trackers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
So far, “Do Not Track” has been a big mess.
The a... |
| Dec 11, 2012 | DoNotTrackMe gets big update to protect you from those wicked web trackers | So far, “Do Not Track” has been a big mess.
The anti-tracking web data initiative has caused a lot of controversy over the past few months, but not much has changed: Online advertisers are still tracking with little regard for privacy, and ... |
| Sep 23, 2012 | The Free Internet Will Be Just Fine With Do Not Track. Here’s Why. | Editor’s note: Sarah A. Downey is an attorney, privacy advocate,and writer. She joined Abine, an online privacy startup, in 2010 after receiving her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she received a certification i... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | How Do Not Track could destroy the Internet as you know it | “If advertisers can convince people to smoke and eat Micky D’s, they can convince them to disable Do Not Track.”
So says Christopher Soghoian, a security and privacy researcher at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who argues that on... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | How Do Not Track could destroy the Internet as you know it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“If advertisers can convince people to smoke and ... |
| Jun 20, 2012 | New patent: will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Apple has just been awarded patent number 825265,... |
| Jun 20, 2012 | New patent: will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother? | Apple has just been awarded patent number 825265, which describes how Apple could create a cloned version of your digital identity in order to protect you from corporate or government electronic surveillance.
Privacy is dead, they say.
But ... |
| Jun 4, 2012 | Experts: Do-Not-Track Proposal is Lacking | Even Eli Pariser, author of a best-selling book about the threat posed by Web personalization, is skeptical about the success of current Do Not Track efforts by the Federal Trade Commission. “Do Not Track would probably offer a binary choic... |
| May 23, 2012 | Being Anonymous on the Internet Is a Good Thing | What would the internet be without anonymity? Even in the shadow of Facebook’s misguided cause to eliminate this invaluable aspect of the online experience, the right to stay anonymous on the internet is an indispensable facet on which ye o... |
| May 20, 2012 | One way you can go private on Facebook | Facebook may have embraced exposing its financial data by going public, but individual users are increasingly concerned with making sure their private information isn’t revealed.
The social-media company already amended its privacy policy t... |
| May 16, 2012 | Facebook May Be Worth $100B, But What Are You Worth To Facebook? | It’s almost here. The big day. Can you feel the excitement? Yes, if all goes according to plan on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg will ring the NASDAQ bell in a hoodie, the big blue social network will go forward with one of the largest IPOs for an... |
| May 11, 2012 | Facebook Clarifies Some Changes to the Data Use Policy | Following the recommendation of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner that Facebook change its data retention policies, the social networking site announced today that it has made said changes. Additionally, Facebook proffered explanations... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | What You Need To Know About Facebook’s New Privacy Policy | Perhaps the first thing you need to know is that after Friday, Facebook will no longer be calling it a privacy policy. The name is being changed to “Data Use Policy.”
And most importantly, if you “use or access” Facebook on or after Friday,... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Do Not Track: The CAN-SPAM of 2012 | Remember in 2003, when the CAN SPAM Act was signed into law, how spam just stopped overnight? Yeah, me neither. Just as CAN SPAM did little to curb spam, having Google and Microsoft sign on to Do Not Track (DNT) still leaves a lot to be des... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Abine Battles for Consumers’ Online Privacy in Post-Facebook Era | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How annoying is the Web? I’m not talking about the nonstop distractions, the social-media window into human stupidity, or even the endless pop-up ads that block your view of t... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Abine Raises $5.2M |
Atlas Venture & General Catalyst Invest $5.2M in Abine, The Online Privacy Company.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA, Abine, Inc.,... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Abine Closes $5M Series A Round of Funding | Abine, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based provider of online privacy solutions, closed a $5m Series A round of funding.
Investors include Atlas Venture and General Catalyst.
Led by President & CEO Bill Kerrigan and co-founder Eugene Kuznetsov,... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Abine Lands $5.2M A Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambridge, MA-based Abine, an online privacy startup, said today it has raised a $5.2 million Series A financing round co-led by Atlas Venture and General Catalyst Partners. A... |
| Оцени, сколько ты стоишь на Facebook | Новая супер игрушка!
Как мы знаем на предстоящем IPO Facebook собирается заработать кучу денег. И оценивается соцсеть очень очень дорого. А сколько стоят пользователи сервиса? Теперь каждый пользователь может узнать, какую ценность он несет... |
