Ghostery Rewards Beta Rollout
Hi Ghostery fans! You may have noticed that we have been running an experiment. Some of you will have received messages within the Ghostery browser extension...
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Ghostery Director of Product, Jeremy Tillman on why consumer privacy laws should be de facto across America – opinion piece in The Hill
(Excerpt from The Hill – 07/19/18 08:30 AM EDT) Last month, California Gov. Jerry Brown rushed to approve a law that gives consumers more control...
EU fines Google a record $5 billion for Android antitrust violations
The European Commission ordered Google to pay a $5 billion antitrust fine for exploiting its dominant market position in search engines, mobile...
Why privacy should be your number one online concern – Ghostery featured in TechRadar
Ghostery tells us why privacy issues can help shape the future of the Internet How we use the Internet and the information shared, knowingly or otherwise,...
After Gmail controversy: How to revoke app access to your Google account
If you grant a third-party app access to Gmail, you must expect the developer’s staff to read your private messages. Check access rights now! Earlier...
Ghostery’s Tracker Tax study featured in TechRadar
Ad trackers aren’t just a threat to your privacy – they can making browsing a drag by doubling page load times according to a survey by online privacy...
Ghostery 8.2 is here!
Hey there Ghostery fans, Ghostery 8.2 is out the door! We have revamped our UI in this latest release, cleaning up the interface and adding more informative...
Net Neutrality is dead, but clean and fast web browsing is still possible with tools like Ghostery
The death of net neutrality The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) repeal of net neutrality legislation, which required Internet Service Providers...
Ghostery Email Incident Update
Dear Ghostery Users, We are very sorry! Ghostery sent out an email yesterday that resulted in the exposure of account holders’ email addresses to other...
Happy GDPR Day – We’ve got you covered
Dear Ghostery Users, As you may be aware, on May 25, 2018 the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. We at Ghostery hold ourselves...
How to GDPR Yourself
The European Union law on data protection General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in just a few days (May 25, 2018). It governs the...
Facebook’s Clear History won’t solve the problem of shadow profiles
If you don’t have a Facebook account, you can’t view or delete the data collected about you on third-party websites and in apps, nor...
Windows 10 April 2018 Update: Diagnostic Data Viewer improves transparency
All telemetry data transmitted from the operating system to Microsoft can now be viewed and searched. However, users still cannot turn off data collection. As...
From The Ghostery Desk Series: Trust & Restrict Sites
Did you know that within the Ghostery extension, you can set certain websites you frequently view as Trusted or Restricted, and that you can view these...
The Tracker Tax: Ghostery study reveals that tracking makes websites load 2 times slower
Simply cut your page load times in half by blocking trackers and eliminating clutter Tracking scripts from Google, Facebook and many other companies monitor...
Third-party trackers misuse Facebook Login to collect user data
Princeton researchers have identified several tracking scripts that abuse the social login system to access Facebook users’ profile information....