The penetration of US healthcare portals with web trackers like Facebook, Google, and various third-party trackers is more extensive than one would expect. Using an online tool from the University of Hamburg, eBlocker has analyzed numerous health-related Web sites to see what data spying is going on under the hood and without our knowledge. Not […]
Health Insurance Companies Are Spying on Customers Weiterlesen
The DSGVO / GDPR Rules Change a Lot – But The Tracking Remains It was desired, it was feared – now it is finally here, from here on the DSGVO (data protection basic regulation) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) the new data protection laws in Europe are in effect. The positive news, in many respects
If the browser suddenly leads to piquant Internet pages, the favored search engine falters or unknown programs appear on the computer, so-called adware is usually involved. But these are only the harmless symptoms, there are much greater dangers. Many free programs either come with built-in advertising or more or less secretly try to install more
Adware: Advertising and Viruses Through The Back Door Weiterlesen
They are available in countless variations: few are just annoying, most of them are extremely dangerous. It is easy to catch them, but it’s difficult to get rid of them: this applies to all viruses – whether they infect the human body or a computer. Where do viruses come from, what tricks they use and
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Word has spread: Surfing the Internet leaves traces. How many clues are there, how expressive they are and how deep they penetrate our privacy – is surprising and rather disturbing. This article explains what you disclose during an everyday trip into the data network. What does the Internet know about me? What happens when I
Anyone surfing the Internet leaves behind traces of data that can be traced back to the user. Experts, therefore, recommend anonymizing tools that make traceability via the IP address impossible. How to use the Tor network to hide your IP address, read here. Who surfs, leaves traces When you surf the Internet, you are not
Tor-Network: Anonymous surfing according to the onion principle Weiterlesen
To set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN), you must first create a user account with a commercial VPN provider and specify how you want to pay the VPN access fees. In addition to the usual payment methods such as credit card, direct debit or bank transfer, many providers offer anonymous payment methods such as
Anyone surfing the Internet is never unobserved. The data you exchange online with others is always visible to third parties. In theory, every e-mail can be read at every node on the Internet that lies between you and the recipient. In order to prevent such snooping, there are various encryption and anonymization procedures. One of
For unique identification, a device requires an address within a data network – be it in the home LAN or on the Internet. This is the only way to ensure that data packets reach the right recipient. This is done via the so-called IP address. But this also allows us to draw meaningful and unwanted
‘Big data.’ ‘Metadata.’ ‘Raw data.’ B.J. Mendelson has a passion for privacy, so he created a book “Privacy” from his collection of essays on privacy protection. This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled “Big Trouble in Little Data.” We felt it was worth sharing. (@bjmendelson) Data processed by autonomous machines employing ‘machine learning.’ By
