In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that can be mild, such as some cases of the common cold (among other possible causes, predominantly rhinoviruses), and others that can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19.
– Wikipedia.org
Sensor Tower has owned at least 20 apps that track data passing through people’s phones.
— Lees op www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-ad-blocking-apps-sensor-tower
20 free VPN apps are spying on your mobile phone, all with the same parent company Sensor Tower, among them:
– Free and Unlimited VPN
– Luna VPN
– Mobile Data
– Adblock Focus
Remove these VPN apps and install a reliable privacy conscious one like WindScribe or NordVPN.
Digital Health, a new service from DoNotPay, maker of the Robo Revenge’ app, can can demand more than 100 data brokers stop selling your location data and personal information, for just $3.
— Lees op fortune.com/2020/03/05/delete-location-data-privacy-personal-information-donotpay/
“A startup called DoNotPay unveiled a service it calls Digital Health that automates the data-deletion process. Priced at $3 a month, the service will contact more than 100 data brokers on your behalf and demand they delete your and your family’s personal information. It will also show you the types of data the brokers have collected — such as phone number or location info — and even initiate legal proceedings if the firms fail to comply. The monthly fee also gives subscribers access to DoNotPay’s other automated avenging services, like appealing parking tickets in any city, claiming compensation for poor in-flight Wi-Fi, and Robo Revenge, which sues robocallers.” – Dick Eastman
All ProtonVPN apps are 100% open source – ProtonVPN Blog
— Lees op protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/
Privacy aware company ProtonVPN announces its next step in privacy & transparency,
Study finds Brave to be the most private browser by Martin Brinkmann on February 25, 2020 in Firefox, Google Chrome – 66 comments Are you concerned about your web browser sending data back to the company that created it? A new study, Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?, looked at the six popular desktop web browsers Google […]
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/25/study-finds-brave-to-be-the-most-private-browser/ — Bruce’s Blog
Brave is an open-source browser based on the Chromium browser engine, which is the same engine used in the Google Chrome browser.
How privacy protected is a Google Chrome plaform built browser?
Fingerprinting, which would be the process of analyzing and combining sets of information elements from your device’s browser in order to create a fingerprint of your device and uniquely identify your browser and device.
99.5% identification accuracy
You should not run fingerprinting directly on or after page load. Rather, delay it for a few milliseconds to ensure consistent fingerprints. – MurmurHash3 by Karan Lyons ?
Fingerprint detections comes in several categories. To speed up fingerprint computation, you can exclude font detection (~ 40ms), canvas fingerprint (~ 10ms), WebGL fingerprint (~ 35 ms), and Audio fingerprint (~30 ms).
The developer claims ‘many more fingerprinting sources’ that will be implemented, such as (in no particular order)
If you are familiair with above sources, please explain them in the comments.
More on https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
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Example of a European Privacy Seal awarded website
Visit VBL.de without Anonymous Startpage.com view on uMatrix 1.4.0 for Firefox, currently vbl.de interacts with your device with:
4 cookies, 3 from imdb.com and 1 third-party cookies from netmind-core.com.
23 Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS), 23 from vbl.de; a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML. Privacy infringement: it allowed websites to uncover a user’s browsing history and figure out what sites the user had visited. Combined with other Web technology such as JavaScript or simply loading of background images, lets Web pages determine whether a URL is in the user’s history very quickly and without any interaction from the user. This is mitigated by browsers.
54 images, an (leaky) image can reveal whether the user is visiting a specific website. None from third-party sources.
0 media, viewing videos on the Internet might collect Personal Information.
21 scripts, all from vbl.de; JavaScript tells all, which turns out not to be so great for privacy: Side-channel leaks can be exploited to follow you around the interweb. A JavaScript template Attacks will Automatically be Inferring Host Information for Targeted Exploits. JavaScript Template Attacks can be used for user fingerprinting. None from third-party sources.
0 XHR, a built-in browser object that allows to make HTTP requests in JavaScript. Despite of having the word “XML” in its name, it can operate on any data, not only in XML format. It uses user and password for login and password on basic HTTP auth. Using resources retrieved via XMLHttpRequest in your background page could fall victim to cross-site scripting. Guard yourself against malicious web pages that might try to impersonate a content script. In particular, do not allow content scripts to request an arbitrary URL. Use HTTPS whenever possible. None from third-party sources.
0 frames, (or XMLHttpRequest), 2 from media-amazon.com and 1 from amazon-adsystem.com; beware of a Frame Injection. Cross-site Scripting is naturally prioritized since it seems easily exploitable and effective. Hackers also are attracted to this vulnerability, because there are aspects of the Frame Injection attack that can allow them to redirect users to other malicious websites used for phishing and similar attacks.
1 other, from datain.cloud.netmind-core.com
Visit vdl.de with Anonymous Startpage.com view on uMatrix 1.4.0 for Firefox, currently vdl.de interacts with your device with:
zero third party or vdl.de cookies, CSS, images, media, scripts, XHR or frames!
But: 146 (!) items of startpage.com itself (see below)
6 cookies
44 Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS)
49 images
0 media
28 scripts
14 XHR
5 frames
Final remarks, stated in the privacy policy of Startpage.com. We don’t collect any “personal data”. We don’t record your IP address. We don’t serve any tracking or identifying cookies. We don’t record your search queries. We don’t disclose or sell your contact information. Regarding governmental requests; they can’t request what we don’t have. We will never comply with any voluntary surveillance program. Startpage.com complies with the GDPR.
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What Are Third-Party Internet Cookies, and Why Is Google Killing Them?
What Are Third-Party Internet Cookies, and Why Is Google Killing Them?
— Lees op latestsolutions.tech.blog/2020/01/21/what-are-third-party-internet-cookies-and-why-is-google-killing-them/
Quora question: What are the biggest tracker networks and what can I do about them?
20+ answers from Ghostery & Little Snitch user, an emotional stance, Privacy Badger user, website developer, sneaky people, anonymous VPN provider, CCleaner, Google is far and away #1 with trackers, PiHole, Redmorph and websites privacy policy.
More details on https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-tracker-networks-and-what-can-I-do-about-them?share=1
Why internet cookies are almost never all right? 