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Data Brokers Watch
We curate the largest publicly available database of data brokers and make it available to the wider research community. The… read more
We curate the largest publicly available database of data brokers and make it available to the wider research community. The… read more
How to manage your account and personal data in ChatGPT, including turning off chat history and model training exporting personal… read more
The Common Crawl corpus contains petabytes of data, regularly collected since 2008. https://commoncrawl.org/
Online privacy policies may not only be difficult to find but nonexistent, according to Penn State researchers who crawled millions… read more
Determined to help consumers get to the bottom of the privacy and security of cars, here’s what we learned after… read more
It’s worth saying again: new cars, at every price point, create and collect so much data about their owners, drivers,… read more
Short article / infographic demonstrating how advertisers bid in real-time for your attention using categories obtained through hidden surveillance architectures:… read more
Get a rundown on online privacy tips from The Markup: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2020/09/22/i-scanned-the-websites-i-visit-with-blacklight-and-its-horrifying-now-what
If you spend any time online, you probably have some idea that the digital ad industry is constantly collecting data… read more
While some of this data, and its collection, may appear harmless to some, what happens behind the scenes is a… read more