Tracking & Personal Data

Mobile location data and the files data brokers keep on you

The Markup and Consumer Reports obtained data broker files on US residents showing more than a thousand inferences and over a hundred buyers. The Freedom of the Press Foundation lists two phone settings that cut the location data a phone leaks, in any country.

Based on 20 sources, including Freedom of the Press Foundation, The Markup, Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan

Data access settings for Siri AI in iOS 27

The new Siri in iOS 27 can read Notes, Messages and Mail by default, and requests may be processed on Apple's servers. EFF has listed the settings that narrow what it can read. For now Siri AI works only with Siri set to English.

Based on 4 sources from EFF, Apple

The cross-site identifier behind ChatGPT's ad pixel

A traffic analysis found that ChatGPT's ad system sets a cookie linked to the user's account, which advertisers' sites then send back to OpenAI through its pixel along with browsing data. So far it has only been seen in Chrome on Android.

Based on 5 sources, including Buchodi's Threat Intel, OpenAI, Google Chrome 說明