Tagged with #privacy

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• Sander November 14, 2023 at 10:08 am

  Ashley Belanger writes for Ars Technica Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal with Google as default search:

  Statista reported that Google's advertising revenue was $224 billion in 2022, and based on that, Engadget estimated that Apple likely gets paid in the tens of billions of dollars for Google's default Safari placements.

  Meanwhile Slack, Discord and others continue not to benefit from an Electron commit that wasn't properly reviewed setting Search with Google as the default #technology #privacy

• Tracking impacts your human rights to identify yourself

  Sander December 27, 2019 at 6:18 am

  Tracking impacts your human rights to identify yourself

  This is well put and worth thinking about.

  Generally speaking, tracking takes away your ability to represent who you are yourself in the current moment. Your identity is how you are perceived by others. People won't appreciate this until they've lost it, but anyone who has been the victim of for example online bullying or stalking will recognise it.

  Online tracking is a form of tracking, which is a automated profiling, which is a limited form of mass surveillance.

  #privacy