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Updated access tests of UK banks present which companies have web page control. You can play with this test suite and adapt it to other sites to see who has control of sites you ca…

A theme in the Post Office (Horizon) scandal is that Fujitsu could amend completed till records after the fact. From hard copy printouts (receipt rolls?) to cryptography (blockchai…

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 SR…

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.poli…

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 process…

I give up with Mozilla, switching to Brave.

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 inva…

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.…

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 cou…

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 th…

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 …

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 pr…

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…

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.

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 pseud…

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 mor…

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…

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 b…