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Many of the apps we enjoy are free. Well, to call them free is a bit misleading. You pay for the apps by looking at advertisements. This is a platform we should all recognize from the sidebar of Facebook, or Google, or almost any service that doesn’t charge a premium to use it. Advertising has […]

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Earlier this week the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first drafts of two new privacy standards aimed at simplifying and standardising how websites read and comply with web users’ privacy settings. The Tracking Preference Expression and Tracking Compliance and Scope standards define a ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) mechanism that will allow users to […]

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An article on Google’s grandly-named European Public Policy Blog, which offers “Google’s views on government, policy and politics in Europe”, has gently announced what the search-and-advertising behemoth calls A new option for location-based services. Google’s location-based services rely extensively on its controversial global database of WiFi access points. The idea is simple. Google’s many StreetView […]

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