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Show HN: They Can Be You: The Injectables [video](youtube.com)
2 points by marichards 1y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What is your experience of tamper proof systems?
2 points by marichards 3y ago|1 comments
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by marichards 3y ago
For a little more detail about this: https://markalanrichards.com/posts/2023-09-10-data-access-te... I wanted to explore the extent to which some significant UK websites include SRI of JavaScript assets. Put together o
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Show HN: Data Protection Access Tests(gitlab.com)
1 points by marichards 3y ago|1 comments
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by marichards 3y ago
Not all of the adtech tracking has been removed and if you look around you may still find some. I wonder what thoughts are regarding Google Analytics on forms like https://www.police.uk/ro/report/rsa/alpha-v1&
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by marichards 6y ago
IANAL: If you were allowed to use GDPR under an exemption, perhaps abuse protection, is that the only purpose the data will be used for by yourself and GA? If you or a data processor you use, uses the data for secondary purposes not covered
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by marichards 6y ago
I give up with Mozilla, switching to Brave.
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by marichards 6y ago
I would not. Firefox still invades the privacy of most users. 1. Install Firefox 2. Type privacy in the search bar 3. Google is now tracking you It embraces dark patterns that invade privacy, whilst criticising other companies for their de
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An organisation connected to the UK’s ICO to breach privacy rules(medium.com)
1 points by marichards 7y ago|0 comments
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US House panel taps defunct startup for Facebook files(apnews.com)
1 points by marichards 7y ago|0 comments
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by marichards 7y ago
When you ask a resident if they want to be tracked by ad companies as they organise a funeral, they might think twice. https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages/dea...
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by marichards 7y ago
I agree most of these don't appear necessary, have you thought to contact the DPO, wait 28 days and if no suitable response, contact the ICO? Also, do you have a link to the EU court guidance? From what I've read before, some fun
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by marichards 7y ago
This isn't just an issue of marketing wanting a Facebook Pixel. In some cases, councils turned their websites into revenue streams and thus were being paid to include adverts on their site that tracked users, browsing council content.
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Nearly all [UK] councils hand user tracking data to marketing companies(eandt.theiet.org)
4 points by marichards 7y ago|4 comments
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by marichards 7y ago
You can have targeted ads and be anonymous to the ad companies. Ads can be targeted to context, not user - web developer ads on JavaScript blogs. Ad profiling and targeting can be done client side. Users' could opt in to what they are
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British privacy regulator breaches privacy(markalanrichards.com)
2 points by marichards 7y ago|0 comments
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by marichards 7y ago
For those who think the EU has strong data privacy laws, you might want to read what exemptions each country has. I'm pretty confident the Brexit Party are still failing to meet privacy law, but to see this, following the Brexit mess w
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UK Brexit Party Privacy Policy(thebrexitparty.org)
1 points by marichards 7y ago|1 comments
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by marichards 7y ago
I don't have a problem with DNS-over-TLS, I don't know enough about it... but I'm afraid I want DNS from Firefox's perspective to be plaintext, transparent and easy for me to check and even change. Like the filesystem is
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Firefox: Leave My DNS Alone(markalanrichards.com)
20 points by marichards 7y ago|7 comments
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by marichards 7y ago
I'm saddened that Google is the default. I hope Brave asks users in the future, but understand there are probably a few different goals being juggled whilst Brave grows.
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by marichards 7y ago
The first paragraph suggests the order is for “targeted and personalised information”. That would suggest that it's unlikely to be anonymised data collection; at best perhaps pseudonymous... and then you get into the questions about ho
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by marichards 7y ago
If you enjoy researching and being creative, then maybe you can experiment with some online koans, watching tutorial videos, an online course or even coding competitions to get more exposure to how developers solve various types of problems
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by marichards 7y ago
If Mozilla wanted to respect privacy the "UI that is designed to act as a search field for Google" could be a "UI that is designed to act as a search field for DuckDuckGo", it wasn't that long ago it was a search fi
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by marichards 7y ago
No solution, but I think we'll never find one if debate, about problems with web privacy, suggests Mozilla is the answer - until they put into actions their words, they shouldn't be seen as the way to go. Whilst I have reservation
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by marichards 7y ago
Whatever Mozilla's focus is when you load Firefox you experience the following: 1. On ESR first time it loads two pages load including https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/60.8.0/firstrun/ https:&
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by marichards 8y ago
When you explain how adtech tracking works, with examples to organisaions that have a moral and regulatory need to protect privacy, in some of the most sensitive situations, it is possible to get them to remove ad tech without too much effo
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Ad tracking of kids using Childline. Facebook removed. YouTube not yet(markalanrichards.com)
4 points by marichards 8y ago|1 comments
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by marichards 8y ago
Depends on how you encrypt over HTTP. You can achieve similar benefits of verification with PGP and similarly rich object level encryption. Be careful of gotchas in how PGP or similar work, if you choose it (notable what is or isn't pl
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by marichards 8y ago
I don't appear to have an edit option, I thought comments could be edited. Thanks for removing MixPanel, I think centralised analytics are by default going to breach privacy as you only need a referer and an IP address to have enough d

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