Malathi Nayak and Joel Rosenblatt report: Google failed to kill a lawsuit alleging that it secretly scoops up troves of internet data even if users browse in “Incognito” mode to keep their search activity private. The consumers who filed the case as a class action alleged that even when even they turn off data collection in…
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Browser users can be tracked even when JavaScript is disabled
Catalin Cimpanu reports: According to an academic paper published this week, threat actors can launch attacks that leak small bits of information from browsers even when JavaScript is completely disabled, allowing for secret tracking even when users might believe they are safe. Authored by a team of American, Australian, and Israeli academics, the research paper analyzed the…
Facebook’s lawyers blast attorney fees bid in Adkins v. Facebook settlement
Sara Merken reports: Facebook Inc is pushing back on plaintiffs lawyers’ request for nearly $12 million in fees and costs for securing an injunctive relief-only settlement stemming from a 2018 cyberattack that affected millions of Facebook users. […] The litigation stemmed from a September 2018 breach that affected the personal information of about 29 million…
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
Bennett Cyphers writes: The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web; phasing out tracking cookies and…