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Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.A new feature to calculate 'productivity

Android apps from dating to fertility to selfie editors share personal data with the Chinese company Jiguang via its SDK that is embedded in the apps, including GPS locations, immutable

Amazon is hiring 'intelligence analysts', who should work on 'sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company' and spy on 'organized labor, activist groups, hostile

I cannot believe IAB Europe is still referring to 'personally-identifiable information' in its "Guide to the Post Third-Party Cookie Era". This concept just doesn't exist under the GDPR, and what

When the data industry is talking about sharing 'anonymized' profile data:They do indeed not share email addresses, for example. But they share hashed versions of it, and they all use

The current state of commercial tracking:Adobe is (re)selling data from another data broker, who tracked protesters in the US (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying) and claims to profile users o

More than 4 years after the GDPR was adopted, and nearly 2 years after it became fully enforceable on 25 May 2018, @DPCIreland, the EU authority responsible for enforcing the

I see four main types of potential issues with proximity tracing apps:1) Opaque/centralized mass profiling2) Insufficient epidemiological/practical efficacy3) Everything related to how governments implement them, e.g. making them (de-facto) compulsor

Location data secretly gathered from smartphone apps is potentially flawed, biased, untrustworthy or even fraudulent.Overview of data harvesting companies who claim to help fighting the virus by providing data on