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Mozilla beefs up anti-cross-site monitoring in Firefox, as Chrome nonetheless lags on privateness

Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser. In a blog post the day past it presented that Firefox 86 has an extra layer of anti-cookie monitoring built into the enhanced monitoring protection (ETP) strict mode — which it’s calling “Total Cookie Protection…
Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser. In a blog post yesterday it announced that Firefox 86 has an extra layer of anti-cookie tracking built into the enhanced tracking protection (ETP) strict mode — which it’s calling “Total Cookie Protection…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  3. "The UKs competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebooks purchase of Giphy has a realistic prospect of substantially lessening competition by March 25, it said today, as it continues to scrutinize the acquisition". (January 28, 2021)
  4. "European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year". (June 25, 2020)
  5. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
  6. "The coronavirus is proving to have an unexpected upside for the adtech industry". (May 7, 2020)
  7. "The lead data supervisor for a slew of tech giants in the European Union, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter, is still relying on Lotus Notes to manage complaints and investigations lodged under the blocs flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), per fr". (February 9, 2021)
  8. "A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy campaign not-for-profit, noyb". (November 16, 2020)
  9. "As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Online tracking is how this great intimacy robbery is pulled off". (December 8, 2020)
  10. "A month after Europes top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which its identified as still sending data to the US via Googl". (August 18, 2020)
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