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Topic · Privacy and security
Online tracking
162 links saved from 2008 to 2026; 154 with a note, 87 in a Weekly Thing.
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- eff.org 15, nytimes.com 9, arstechnica.com 7, medium.com 4, theguardian.com 4
2026
2025
2024
- Surveillance Self-Defense
- 🎁 Worried about your privacy? This service locks down 223 settings for you.
- The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data
- Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge
- Differential privacy - Explained
- Privacy First and Competition
- Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It.
- If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any
2023
2022
2021
- Chris Gilliard aims to abolish Silicon Valley’s surveillance machine
- 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
- Why We Should End the Data Economy
- Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple
- Dark Pattern Tipline
- Terms and Conditions Apply
- Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Eastern District of Virginia
- Counter: Simple Web Analytics
- How to Delete Your Old Online Accounts (and Why You Should)
- Checklist: If you want to see if anyone else has access to your device or accounts
2020
2019
- Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
- How our home delivery habit reshaped the world | Technology
- Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information
- Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet
- Your Attention Is Sovereign - Start Select Reset Zine 001
- Credit card privacy matters: Apple Card vs. Chase Amazon Prime Rewards Visa
- Deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 60+ companies – Simple Opt Out
- Track This | A new kind of Incognito
- You Care More About Your Privacy Than You Think
- The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
- I left the ad industry because our use of data tracking terrified me
- Idle Words - Talks - Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy (Senate hearing)
- What Women Know About the Internet
- It’s Time to Panic About Privacy
- Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
- Privacy's not an abstraction
- Privacy is a commons
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Malicious Shortcuts
- Deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 40+ companies – SimpleOptOut.com
- Online privacy Recode podcast interview with McSweeney’s and EFF
- You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It
- How to Delete Online Accounts You No Longer Need
2018
- Become A Facebook-Free Business
- Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
- A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads
- I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here's what I found
- Google is losing users’ trust.
- #youbroketheinternet So We Got Tracked Anyway
- What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy
- You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information
- New analysis shows how Facebook and Google push users into sharing personal data : Forbrukerrådet
- My Data Request: Request your personal data from 100+ companies.
- Data Ethics Framework
- Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy?
- Apple Tries to Stop Developers From Sharing Data on Users’ Friends
- Ghostery Email Incident Update
- We’re in the Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising
- Richard Stallman, RMS, on Privacy, Data, and Free Software
- Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself
- Steve Jobs on privacy, Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference (Video)
- The Only Privacy Policy That Matters – Dave Pell
- Differential Privacy for Dummies – Roberto Agostino Vitillo's Blog
- The House That Spied on Me
- Personal Data Representatives: An Idea – Tom Steinberg
- Q&A: Edward Snowden on rights, privacy, secrets and leaks in conversation with Jimmy Wales
2017
- Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older…
- Learning with Privacy at Scale
- The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding State Surveillance
- No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move
- Big Brother isn't just watching: workplace surveillance can track your every move | World news
- Understanding the Equifax Data Breach
- I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets | Technology
- You Can’t Protect Yourself from the Equifax Breach
- How the personal data extraction industry ends —Doc Searls Weblog
- Swarm Shifts Focus to Become a Personal Travel Timeline
- Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life
- Congress Moves to Overturn Obama-Era Online Privacy Rules
2016
2015
- Lawrence Lessig: Technology Will Create New Models for Privacy Regulation
- Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy
- The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist — The Message
- What is privacy worth?
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO)
- User Behavioral Analytics - Guardian Analytics
- A Way Forward: Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath Explains Where Our Privacy is Now, and How We Fix It
2014
2013
- N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
- Whos Watching You?
- Robert Scoble - Google+ - Lifelogging pioneer shows us a new social "safe" If you
- The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
- Privacy, Secrecy, the Web, and Ads The Brooks Review
- Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme. Or "the Internet is for porn"
- Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
- Google+ content is given priority in search its official
- Social Media Upending Privacy in Real World
2012
- Youre not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
- New data on privacy policies shows 20 percent of sites may sell data
- PrivacyChoice
- Open Notice
- The spy in your inbox
- You Are What You Say: Privacy Risks of Public Mentions
- Anonymous Analytics
- GraphDive
- Survey: Percentage of users saying they opt out of targeted ads has nearly doubled
- Interview with an Adware Author
- TOSSOS
- Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
- All your Tumblr are belong to Them
- Cybersecurity Bill FAQ: The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop It
- The Calyx Institute
- This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
- Do we value our laundry more than our privacy?
- Privacy Icons - MozillaWiki
- Updating our privacy policies and terms of service
- EFF Calls on Websites to Implement HTTPS As Part of Data Privacy Day
2011
- Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle
- Khula Project
- OpenWatch Demand Marvelous Secrets
- Groupon Changes Privacy Policy, Starts Tracking User Location
- Whats yours stays yours
- How Does Dropbox's Terms of Service Compare to Those of Other Companies?
- Al Franken Introduces First Location Privacy Bill In Senate
- Senator Al Franken asks iOS developers to provide clear and understandable privacy policies
- Changes to the rules on using cookies and similar technologies for storing information
- Social Privacy in Networked Publics
- Domestic surveillance court approved 100% of 2010 warrant requests
- Privacy, Facebook, politics and kids
- Reader Privacy Bill Passed Through California Senate Judiciary Committee
- A Label For Privacy Policies
- Ultimate Privacy
- Drumbeat - Privacy Icons
- House Subcommittee Revives Mandatory Data Retention Debate...With a Surprise Attack on EFF
- Teens Turn to Social Coding to Protect Privacy on Social Nets
- Supreme Court Health Data Case Could Sway Online Privacy Debate
- Warrantless cell phone search gets a green light in California
2010
- Commerce Department's Online Privacy Report a Positive Step, But Self-Regulation Isn't Enough
- 2010: E-Book Buyer's Guide to E-Book Privacy
- Some Internet-Use Tracking Firms to Reveal What They Know
- FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers
- CAPTCHA advertising
- The Wall Street Journal Asks: What Do Online Advertisers Know About You?