The Digital Advertising Alliance wants to be ready when Mozilla starts blocking cookies by default in its Firefox Web browser. Mozilla’s cookie-blocking plan has been controversial from the start.
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Sang Mun made a typeface that’s unparsable to computers, but legible to human eyes.
ZXX is a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress’ listing of three-letter codes denoting which language a book is written in. Code “ZXX” is used when there is: “No linguistic content; Not applicable.” I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker) — misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all.
If you want to protect yourself against government spying, or you’re afraid you might be the target of a drone, there’s hope beyond the good-old tinfoil hat. Two artists have started selling high-tech privacy-protecting gear to fool drones and spies at the New Musem in New York City.
The advertising industry suffered a setback late last night when the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium rejected the Digital Advertising Alliance’s draft proposal for a universal Do Not Track standard.
Twitter today announced a new way of targeting advertisements for its users. This new system will display ads based on your behavior and reading habits. This is typical of the direction that major online companies are moving. But Twitter has made some praiseworthy design decisions
1. When Do Not Track is enabled, Twitter will not collect your browsing information
.2. Twitter is incorporating a setting to completely opt out of targeted ads.
The company unveiled yesterday its new ad retargeting effort, which lets it display advertisements to users based on their browsing activity. As Twitter argues, it’s all about seeing better, more relevant ads (and making more money from advertisers). But while the news is a big deal for Twitter, it’s actually a bigger deal for proponents of Do Not Track. Twitter says its new system will honor DNT signals, which means users who opt out won’t see targeted ads
Consumer data companies are scooping up huge amounts of consumer information about people around the world and selling it, providing marketers details about whether you’re pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you drive. But many people still don’t know data brokers exist.
Smart diapers are embedded with interactive labels that detect moisture, bacteria and sugar. But critics worry the invention could lead to false alarms.
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