WPF on EASA: Self-Regulation on Online Behavioral Advertising No Longer Credible
Comments on EASA –The World Privacy Forum submitted comments today on the European Advertising Standards Alliance’s Best Practice Recommendation on Online Behavioural Advertising. Our comments focus...
View ArticleWPF Resource Page: Behavioral Advertising and Privacy
About Behaviorally targeted advertising, World Privacy Forum testimony, comments and resources What is “behaviorally targeted advertising”? Not all online advertising is inherently bad. In its...
View ArticleConsumer Tip: Opt out of automatic Facebook facial recognition
Privacy tip — If you have a Facebook account and if you have ever been tagged in a photo of yourself on Facebook, we want to alert you to an important Facebook setting. Unless you have proactively...
View ArticleWPF Resource Page: Cloud Computing and Privacy
About Cloud Computing: The World Privacy Forum Cloud Computing Report, and Cloud Computing Tips What is Cloud Computing ? Cloud computing involves the sharing or storage by users of their own...
View ArticleDon’t put all of your digital activities in one place ….
Search engine privacy – WPF has updated its search engine privacy tips page to include more tips on how to segregate online activities. This has always been important, and it has become more important...
View ArticleCompanies overriding Safari browser privacy settings
Online privacy | Apple privacy – Stanford University has released a study documenting how companies overrode Safari users’ browser privacy settings. The WPF encourages Apple users to download the...
View ArticleHow unique are you?
How unique are you? We played with a data privacy tool today here at WPF that showed us if the combination of our birthdate and zip code made us statistically unique. The more unique you are, the...
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Consumer Tips: World Privacy Forum’s Top Ten Opt Outs
As privacy experts, we are frequently asked about “opting out,” and which opt outs we think are the most important. This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum...
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Consumer Tips: What to do about the NSA address book snooping
The Washington Post published new revelations from Edward Snowden’s leaked documents that revealed that the NSA is scooping up millions of email and IM address books globally. This is a serious piece...
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Consumer Tip: How to set Yahoo Mail to use SSL
It is important to use SSL, or encrypted connections when you use web-based email. Yahoo does not automatically set SSL or secure mail connections by default. You have to set it manually until January...
View ArticleThousands of complaints about kids’ expensive bites of Apple’s “in-app...
It sounds so innocent: the Tap Pet Hotel app for kids. But one mother complained to the FTC that her child tapped up $2,600 of in-app purchases up while using the app. Other parents complained about...
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Consumer Tips: Facebook Privacy Guide — How to Opt Out of Nielsen Research...
FAQ: I just heard that Facebook users can have their viewing habits tracked by Nielsen when they watch TV on their mobiles or tablets. Is this true? How do I get out of this? Yes, this is true. If...
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Top tips for people affected by the recent Yahoo security breach
On December 14 Yahoo announced a serious security breach in which sophisticated data attackers grabbed users’ answers to security questions, among other information such as names, email addresses,...
View ArticleWorld Privacy Forum in the news: spring update
Here is a spring 2018 update on a selection of privacy stories WPF has been quoted in over the past few months, many of them quoting our work on privacy. For more articles, see our full World Privacy...
View ArticleDon’t put all of your digital activities in one place ….
Search engine privacy — WPF has updated its search engine privacy tips page to include more tips on how to segregate online activities. This has always been important, and it has become more important...
View ArticleCompanies overriding Safari browser privacy settings
Online privacy | Apple privacy — Stanford University has released a study documenting how companies overrode Safari users’ browser privacy settings. The WPF encourages Apple users to download the...
View ArticleHow unique are you?
How unique are you? We played with a data privacy tool today here at WPF that showed us if the combination of our birthdate and zip code made us statistically unique. The more unique you are, the...
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Consumer Tips: What to do about the NSA address book snooping
The Washington Post published new revelations from Edward Snowden’s leaked documents that revealed that the NSA is scooping up millions of email and IM address books globally. This is a serious piece...
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Consumer Tip: How to set Yahoo Mail to use SSL
It is important to use SSL, or encrypted connections when you use web-based email. Yahoo does not automatically set SSL or secure mail connections by default. You have to set it manually until January...
View ArticleThousands of complaints about kids’ expensive bites of Apple’s “in-app...
It sounds so innocent: the Tap Pet Hotel app for kids. But one mother complained to the FTC that her child tapped up $2,600 of in-app purchases up while using the app. Other parents complained about...
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