Privacy Digest 13/25
From Code to Coastline: Ghostery Co-Organizes the Ad-Filtering Dev Summit 2025
Ghostery is proud to co-organize the Ad-Filtering Dev Summit 2025, happening October 23–24 in Limassol, Cyprus, AdGuard’s home turf! Join us and fellow privacy advocates for two days of collaboration, tech talks, and seaside networking. Whether you're coding, designing, or building filter lists, this is your chance to meet the ad-blocking community offline and help shape the future of the open web. Let’s meet by the sea!
ghostery.com
An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
Since the full article is behind a paywall, here’s the gist: What if your messy, honest browser history held the key to love? That’s the bold idea behind Browser Dating, a new experimental platform by Belgian artist Dries Depoorter. Instead of filtered selfies and witty bios, users upload their real search history, everything from WebMD spirals to late-night travel plans rabbit holes. An AI matches you based on digital quirks you’d never reveal on Tinder. The concept raises valid privacy questions, but Depoorter insists your data stays local and protected. With just under 1,000 users so far, this oddball project might just reinvent online dating, or at least make it weird and wonderful again.
wired.com
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New Way to Covertly Track Android Users
Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught. The details are interesting, and worth reading in detail.
schneier.com
DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.3m by UK regulator for 2023 data hack
Sensitive data hacked from the California-based company included information on 150,000 British residents - such as family trees, health reports, names, and postcodes.
theguardian.com
How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they’re not yours
Internet of Things devices are collecting an increasing amount of information, creating a web of data harvesting that ensnares people all around them.
theconversation.com
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Alleged shooter found Minnesota lawmakers’ addresses online, court docs say
A man accused of shooting two Minnesota Democrats at their homes allegedly found their addresses online, reigniting calls for stricter regulation of how personal data is bought and sold. The incident has alarmed lawmakers, including Sen. Ron Wyden, a longtime privacy advocate, who warned, “Congress doesn’t need more proof that people are being killed data based on data for sale to anyone with a credit card." He added that every American’s safety is at risk until lawmakers crack down on what he described as a “sleazy industry."
politico.com