At webXray we are accelerating the privacy transition by making privacy violations easy to locate, litigate, and remediate.
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Today we release our California Privacy Audit. Top: Google, Meta, and Microsoft set cookies despite presence of Global Privacy Control opt-outs, 100% of Google-Certified Cookie Banners failed to provide full protection, with major vendors failing:
globalprivacyaudit.org/2026/…
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@webxray is a privacy tool that helps users find privacy violations online.
Anyone tried it out yet?
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With the new search tool webXray, engineer Tim Libert hopes to help shed light on how our data is tracked and used without our consent: “I want to give privacy enforcers equal technology as privacy violators.” wired.com/story/webxray-onli…
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A real honor to have top billing for two separate stories on @WIRED's homepage two days in a row. This current iteration of WIRED is just killing it, with some of the best reporting on AI, labor, security, and tech culture going. Very happy to join the party for a couple days
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A real honor to have top billing for two separate stories on @WIRED's homepage two days in a row. This current iteration of WIRED is just killing it, with some of the best reporting on AI, labor, security, and tech culture going. Very happy to join the party for a couple days
hello world.
wired.com/story/webxray-onli…
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Using tools and techniques by @SCSatCMU's @tim_libert, @FT finds that some of the biggest health and wellness websites are sharing sensitive data with advertisers. Read more: ft.com/content/0fbf4d8e-022b…
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Google’s web trackers are all over porn sites, and Incognito mode won’t save you theverge.com/2019/7/18/20699…
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New work by @scsatcmu’s @tim_libert and colleagues from @Penn and @Microsoft, has uncovered that some of the biggest tech companies out there are tracking users of pornography websites, taking privacy concerns to whole new level.
nyti.ms/2SlNjjW
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Researchers scanned 22,484 porn sites. They found lots of trackers. Google's were 74 percent of the adult sites. Oracle's showed up on 24 percent of the sites. Facebook's appeared on 10 percent of the sites. nyti.ms/2XV60vS
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Watching porn?
Here's who else is watching:
A study of 22,484 porn websites showed that 93% leak user data to other companies -
including Google and Facebook.
nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opini…
Data brokers are collecting identifiable profiles of users browsing habits, even on pornography websites
@tim_libert using @webxray in the @nytimes. 22,484 sites scanned: nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opini…
Read the full article by Elena Maris, Timothy Libert and Jennifer Henrichsen here: arxiv.org/abs/1907.06520
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Among all pages and types of content examined, news websites tend to include more content from third parties and so represent a greater risk to user privacy. New study: Third Party Content on EU News Sites by @tim_libert and @rasmus_kleis #gdpr #privacy
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New study of news sites in 7 EU countries finds very high amounts of web-tracking cookies and domains compared to popular sites, & the rate of 3rd-party content depends on the site's revenue model. @tim_libert #gdpr reutersinstitute.politics.ox…
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Research Paper ‘Automated Approach to Auditing Disclosure of Third-Party Data Collection in Website Privacy Policies’ <‘over 200,000 websites’ privacy policies are audited’ timlibert.me/pdf/Libert-2018… & yep, website privacy policies, choice and control suck.