Privacy Digest 14/22

What is a no-tracking search engine?

A private search engine does not log your search history or sell your personal data. It will prevent tracking, the display of biased search results, and improve your digital privacy.

ghostery.com

Private Search Search Engines Antitracking Privacy Protection Privacy

What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.

If you love privacy, there's a lot to love about Signal.

mashable.com

Signal Secure Messager End-to-End Encryption Surveillance Capitalism Cross-Platform App

How Companies Are Building Data Partnerships With Telcos

Many businesses are building partnerships with other companies and ecosystems to leverage users’ data in privacy-compliant ways. One of the choices is collaborating with telcos.

forbes.com

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Google is pushing back its deadline for killing off tracking cookies until at least 2024

The second delay in its timeline to phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome is designed to allow more time to test alternative technologies.

businessinsider.com

Cookie-based Tracking Ad Industry Advertising Ad Tech Tracking Cookies

Ring Reveals They Give Videos to Police Without User Consent or a Warrant

Amazon’s Ring devices are not just personal security cameras. They are also police cameras—whether you want them to be or not. The company now admits there are “emergency” instances when police can get warrantless access to Ring personal devices without the owner’s permission.

eff.org

Data Sharing Ring Personal Security Amazon Law Enforcement

JusTalk spilled millions of user messages and locations for months

The messaging app left a huge database of unencrypted private messages online but without a password for months.

techcrunch.com

Data Leak JusTalk Messaging Apps JusTalk Kids
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