Latest Trackers news

Apple and Google add alerts for unknown Bluetooth trackers to iOS, Android

On Monday, Apple and Google jointly announced a new privacy feature that warns Android and iOS users when an unknown Bluetooth tracking device travels with them.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 14, 2024
- 11:07 AM
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Cerebral to pay $7 million settlement in Facebook pixel data leak case

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data.
- Bill Toulas
- April 16, 2024
- 05:37 PM
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Strava heatmap feature can be abused to find home addresses

Researchers at the North Carolina State University Raleigh have discovered a privacy risk in the Strava app's heatmap feature that could lead to identifying users' home addresses.
- Bill Toulas
- June 11, 2023
- 10:15 AM
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Over 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisers

Security researchers at Norton Labs have found that roughly eight out of ten websites featuring a search bar will leak their visitor's search terms to online advertisers like Google.
- Bill Toulas
- September 08, 2022
- 10:27 AM
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DuckDuckGo opens its privacy-focused email service to everyone

DuckDuckGo has opened its 'Email Protection' service to anyone wishing to get their own '@duck.com' email address.
- Bill Toulas
- August 28, 2022
- 10:06 AM
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Misconfigured Meta Pixel exposed healthcare data of 1.3M patients

U.S. healthcare provider Novant Health has disclosed a data breach impacting 1,362,296 individuals who have had their sensitive information mistakenly collected by the Meta Pixel ad tracking script.
- Bill Toulas
- August 22, 2022
- 02:16 PM
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DuckDuckGo browser now blocks all Microsoft trackers, most of the time

DuckDuckGo announced today that they will now be blocking all third-party Microsoft tracking scripts in their privacy browser after failing to block them in the past.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 05, 2022
- 08:00 AM
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Popular vehicle GPS tracker gives hackers admin privileges over SMS

Vulnerability researchers have found security issues in a GPS tracker that is advertised as being present in about 1.5 million vehicles in 169 countries.
- Bill Toulas
- July 19, 2022
- 11:00 AM
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DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 24, 2022
- 06:07 PM
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Third-party web trackers log what you type before submitting

An extensive study looking into the top 100k ranking websites has revealed that many are leaking information you enter in the site forms to third-party trackers before you even press submit.
- Bill Toulas
- May 16, 2022
- 05:15 PM
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Free Android app lets users detect Apple AirTag tracking

A small team of researchers at the Darmstadt University in Germany have published a report illustrating how their AirGuard app for Android provides better protection from stealthy AirTag stalking than other apps.
- Bill Toulas
- February 26, 2022
- 10:07 AM
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ProtonMail introduces a new email tracker blocking system

ProtonMail has introduced an enhanced email tracking protection system for its web-based email solution that prevents senders from being tracked by recipients who open their messages.
- Bill Toulas
- January 20, 2022
- 11:25 AM
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly, with the company now averaging over 100 million daily search queries and growing by almost 47% in 2021.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 26, 2021
- 01:41 PM
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DuckDuckGo's new email privacy service forwards tracker-free messages

DuckDuckGo is rolling out an email privacy feature that strips incoming messages of trackers that can help profile you for better profiling and ad targeting.
- Ionut Ilascu
- July 20, 2021
- 03:03 PM
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020

The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 102M daily search queries for the first time in January.
- Mayank Parmar
- January 17, 2021
- 11:39 AM
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Ring Android App Sent Sensitive User Data to 3rd Party Trackers

Amazon's Ring doorbell app for Android is sending to third-party trackers information that can be used to identify customers, research from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found.
- Ionut Ilascu
- January 28, 2020
- 11:48 AM
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uBlock Origin Now Blocks Sneaky First-Party Trackers in Firefox

uBlock Origin on Firefox can now block first-party tracking scripts that attempt to bypass filters and rules by utilizing DNS CNAME records to load scripts from a third-party domain.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 20, 2019
- 01:32 PM
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Buggy GPS Trackers Expose Childrens’ Real-Time Location

Several vulnerabilities impacting twenty-nine models of GPS trackers designed to monitor the location of children, pets, and valuable possessions expose real-time location data as Avast Threat Labs researchers found.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 05, 2019
- 11:28 AM
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Mozilla Firefox Adding a New Social Tracking Protection Feature

Mozilla plans on adding a new dedicated social tracking protection component to their tracker protection system. This feature is currently under development, but is targeted for the Firefox 70 release.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 12, 2019
- 03:30 AM
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Mozilla Firefox Protection Report to Show Blocked Tracker Stats

Mozilla Firefox will soon generate a "Protection Report" that shows a daily summary of the types and amounts of trackers that were blocked using the browser's Content Blocking feature.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 07, 2019
- 02:41 PM
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