None of your business Google!

05/28/20 • 19 min

In this episode we examine the recently filed complaint from Austria-based noyb, the privacy nonprofit. The complaint alleges that Google may be illegally tracking Android users in Europe via a unique, device-assigned advertising ID. Sean Patterson and Matthias Subik discuss the complaint and the implications.

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May 25, 2020 marks the 2nd anniversary of the EU's GDPR law. The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. Sean Patterson and Matthias Subik discuss.

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You can't defeat ultrasound advertising!

Ultrasound technology embeds high-frequency tones that are inaudible to humans in advertisements, web pages, and even physical locations like retail stores. These ultrasound "beacons" emit their audio sequences with speakers, and almost any device microphone—like those accessed by an app on a smartphone or tablet—can detect the signal and start to put together a picture of what ads you've seen, what sites you've perused, and even where you've been. Sean Patterson and Matthias Subik discuss implications.