Visualise tracking technologies
Last July I downloaded an experimental add-on for Firefox called Lightbeam. It shows you all the third party tracking cookies placed on...
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Sociodigital Matters Blog
Caroline Keen
- Apr 28, 2020
- 7 min
Online learning in the new lockdown environment: How safe is children's personal data?
Dr Caroline Keen April 28th, 2020 How well are we safeguarding our children's privacy? New research into parents’ and teenagers’ privacy...
Caroline Keen
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
Facebook pay teenagers to give up privacy
In January this year Facebook was forced to halt a customer surveillance project when it was found teenagers aged between 13-17 had been...
Caroline Keen
- Feb 25, 2019
- 1 min
Review of Google in relation to privacy
French watchdog has fined Google 50 million pounds over its lack of transparency about consent to collect and use personal data under the...
Caroline Keen
- Feb 25, 2019
- 1 min
The not quite so transparent global actor...
Privacy choices in Google maps a fiction. While we are told that we have the option to turn off our location history on our android...
Caroline Keen
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
When is consent not consent?
Germany regulators have ruled that Facebook is exploiting its customers through 'requiring' that they agree to their pervasive data...
Caroline Keen
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
IoT CloudPets damned in security audit: Public shaming gets results
Mozilla takes on an auditory role by releasing information about the risks of IoT toys, CloudPets sold at stores including Amazon, Target...
Caroline Keen
- Jan 29, 2019
- 1 min
Safety by design - not!
Now that children's safety has gained the attention of policy makers and governments due to the adoption of the European General Data...
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