Tag Archives: Privacy

I don’t write about Facebook very often because many people that I care about are—inexplicably—Facebook devotees and if I wrote about Facebook to the extent warranted, I would likely alienate my friends and loved ones. Still, sometimes Facebook’s behavior is … Continue reading →

Everybody—especially readers of Irreal—knows that our browsing habits and Web activities are being vacuumed up by the malignant Adtech industry but you probably have no idea of how out of control they are. Techcrunch has a terrifying and infuriating article … Continue reading →

A week ago I wrote about Arizona suing Google over data collection. Arizona’s complaint is that Google collects location information even if you turn it off. Since that data collection was for maps and weather, I was willing to give … Continue reading →

Over at Six Colors, Jason Snell tells us that congress wants to tinker with the COVID-19 tracking framework set up by Apple and Google. Why not? What could go wrong? The same people who brought you the Government Healthcare Website, … Continue reading →

As I said previously, if you care about privacy, you shouldn’t be using an Android phone. My point was that even if you believe Android phones are technically superior or equivalent to the iPhone, no reasonable person can doubt that … Continue reading →

Irreal has been railing against adtech and the malware that advertisers download onto our computers to facilitate their tracking for a long time. Despite pretty compelling evidence that it doesn’t work, its use continues unabated. There is, however, a modicum … Continue reading →