Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video https://arstechni.ca/5s8J #facebookpixel #SupremeCourt #MetaPixel #paramount #Policy
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Before anyone takes this as a discussion point pro #iOS...
A few counterarguments on #LocalMess (#Facebook #Instagram #Yandex #LocalhostTracking), why this would make #Android worse than #iOS:
This vulnerability seems to only have existed on Android, but not everyone would need to be affected by it.
I see #GrapheneOS as a perfected form of the Android idea (stripping the #Advertising and Tracking from it, and adding needed extensions to the permission system).
1. #AdBlock and #Tracking Blocking on Android is easy.
Use a Browser like #Ironfox with #UBlockOrigin in advanced mode, and block known tracking Javascript that way.
Solved, no #Metapixel, #GoogleAnalytics, #YandexMetrica, #CloudflareInsights and whatever else exists out there. It is blocked from loading or executing, so it can't listen on your localhost either.
2. Disabling apps
Android has 3 ways to isolate and disable apps. Note that due to this working on localhost, and all user profiles sharing the same localhost, the isolation is worthless here. Only the ability to disable apps is of value.
A: User profiles. Only nice to use on GrapheneOS, but they need barely any storage space and offer the strongest isolation. All data is separately encrypted too so using the same Pin is fine (if your threat is not people seeing your pin)
B: The #PrivateSpace. A new Android feature which allows having a separate nested profile within the main one. You can enable it in the settings, enable auto-lock when turning off the screen, add other restrictions. You can toggle it on and off in the app drawer.
C: The #WorkProfile. This is a pretty old feature, intended to grant your employer control over a nested user profile, but giving you the control to turn it on or off.
When using it alone you need a companion app like #Shelter or #Island, and due to the design this app has full potential control over that profile (so it should be really trusted!).
Work profiles take up a lot of space, but integrate the best into the system (easily accessible, icons can be placed on the home screen).
D: Disabling apps. Android only supports this for system apps. GrapheneOS also allows this for any app but the UI is not great (Androids fault), as apps disappear from the home screen and app drawer. They can be enabled again in the settings.
#CalyxOS has a nice toggle that is very easy to use. Apps do not disappear from the homescreen but appear disabled. This is the easiest way to stop apps from running.
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GrapheneOS also has support for "private spaces" within separate user profiles, which makes the switching faster and easier.
All these nested or separate profiles use the same localhost (local network), but by turning them off you can fully disable the apps that would serve the cookies used for this method.
3. (Progressive) #Webapps.
While iOS has blocked this feature for years, locking developers to their pricey and walled #AppStore, on Android every Website in your browser can be used like a native app.
#Meta ironically blocks this aggressively, locking Video Playback and more to "their App™". Other apps like #GoogleMaps, #TikTok or #Shitter annoy you with popups, and offer often reduced versions, but they work.
Normal websites like #Discourse forums work just fine.
Webapps are WAY more isolated, cannot and execute random code, everything goes through your browser and the blocklists and restrictions you control.
Using only one of these isolation methods will break any future exploit with this method.
They allow Android users to restrict, disable or confine untrusted apps.
GrapheneOS stays secure and private.
Hopefully the "app disabling" from Calyx will be included soon.
The covert tracking—implemented in the #MetaPixel and #YandexMetrica trackers—allows #Meta and #Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it.
@arstechnica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/
Verknüpfung von Daten 🔗 Besuchte Webseiten mit #MetaPixel oder #YandexMetrica verbinden Web-Besuche mit App-Accounts – selbst im Inkognito-Modus.
Reaktionen der Unternehmen ⚠️ #Google prüft das Vorgehen, #Meta und #Yandex pausieren die Praxis, während Browser wie #DuckDuckGo und #Brave bereits blockieren.
Schwachstelle bleibt offen 🔓 Experten fordern grundlegende Plattform-Änderungen.
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Common privacy techniques such as clearing cookies or using Private Browsing did not protect against this technique.
Browser vendors are working to block this traffic, some have already pushed updates.
I guess anti-tracking filters for ad blockers such as #uBlockOrigin did prevent this (not including the #MetaPixel script or not allowing the #Yandex localhost traffic).
Anybody has any details?
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers https://arstechni.ca/PYRN #browsinghistories #MetaPixel #Features #Security #Metrica #privacy #Biz&IT #yandex
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers https://arstechni.ca/G53U #browsinghistories #MetaPixel #Features #Security #Metrica #privacy #Biz&IT #yandex
Kry, Apotea och Länsförsäkringar hade aktiverat en delfunktion i Meta-pixeln av misstag. IMY utfärdar en reprimand. Alla tre bolag har nu tagit bort Meta-pixeln. Klokt. Nu kvarstår bara att rensa bort resten av spårningsskräpet!
https://www.imy.se/nyheter/imy-klar-med-ytterligare-granskningar-av-meta-pixeln/
𝗣𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸:
That marketing code on your web site could land you in front of a judge soon.
The lawsuits, in fact, are already being filed.
✅ Read our full story:
https://todayindigital.beehiiv.com/p/pushback
Meta Conversion API integration on your LnkBio page: Track events with server-to-server calls on your linkinbio
https://lnk.bio/linkin/meta-conversion-api-integration-on-your-linkinbio-page
Die Österreichische #Datenschutz-Behörde hat ihren Tätigkeitsbericht 2023 veröffentlicht:
https://www.dsb.gv.at
PDF: https://www.dsb.gv.at/dam/jcr:561c7ab4-f55e-40d9-a19f-c9d506aeb9bf/Datenschutzbericht%202023.pdf
S. 10 Allgemeine Erfahrungen der #DSB:
„Hohe Verfahrenszahlen gepaart mit einem zu niedrigen Personalstand“
Themen sind u. a.:
· #Cookie-Banner
· #MetaPixel
· #Facebook-Login
· #ClearviewAI
· #Videokameras
· #GoogleFonts
· EU Zusammenarbeit: #EDSA, #Europol, Schengener Informationssystem #SIS, #Visa, gemeinsame Zollinformationssystem (#ZIS) und #Eurodac
Ai Art Fantasy Soldiers #aiart #aiartcommunity #aiartists #metapixart #MetaPixel
#AMC to pay $8M for allegedly violating 1988 law with use of #MetaPixel
The settlement comes in response to allegations that AMC illegally shared subscribers' viewing history with tech companies like #Google, #Facebook, and X (aka #Twitter) in violation of the Video #Privacy Protection Act ( #VPPA ).
#USA #Facebook #Surveillance #MetaPixel #Privacy: "Here’s what the student doesn’t know: Although she surfed the internet in the privacy of her home, Facebook saw much of what she did.
Every single site she visited used the Meta Pixel, a tracking tool that silently collects and transmits information to Facebook as users browse the web, according to testing by The Markup. Millions of invisible pixels are embedded on websites across the internet, allowing businesses and organizations to target their customers on Facebook with ads.
Businesses embed the pixel on their own websites voluntarily, to gather enough information on their customers so they can advertise to them later on Meta’s social platforms, Facebook and Instagram. If there’s a pixel on a website’s checkout page and a visitor buys a baseball hat with their school’s logo, for example, the pixel may note that interaction, and the owner of that page can send that person more apparel ads on Facebook later. This is one of the reasons people see the same ad following them on Facebook and Instagram after they shopped on a different site. The Markup has also found hospitals, telehealth companies, tax filing websites, and mental health crisis websites using the pixel, and transmitting sensitive information to social media companies."
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/11/22/facebook-watches-teens-online-as-they-prep-for-college
#Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health #Data With #Meta
In Feb 2023, @themarkup published how Kroger collects its data... and it collects _and_ shares a lot. Reasons for sharing include selling shopper insights and - you guessed it - targeted advertising.
This lawsuit is on grounds that the Meta tracking pixel embedded on Kroger's websites violated the Electronic Communications #Privacy Act, HIPAA, and Ohio state privacy/health information disclosure laws.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/11/27/kroger-sued-for-sharing-sensitive-health-data-with-meta
#AdTech #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #Facebook #MetaPixel: "In response to our stories, many sites immediately reversed course and removed their pixels. Not only that: Lawmakers called for immediate action, and attorneys filed dozens of lawsuits alleging that the practice of gathering the data was unlawful.
At this point, you might think that the project would be over and done. But we’re still seeing reverberations.
Since last month, we’ve seen legal action taken against companies in response to three different stories in our series."
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/09/30/our-pixel-hunt-project-keeps-paying-dividends
How tech companies got access to our #tax data. #TaxAct, #TaxSlayer, and #HRblock. It found that the sites were sending data to #Meta through #MetaPixel, a commonly used piece of computer code often embedded in #websites to track users https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/17/1076365/how-tech-companies-access-tax-data/
Met Police website sent information about crime victims to Facebook
The data was transmitted via Meta Pixel tracker despite the online form for reporting offences claiming to be 'secure'
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