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Google announces test feature for Chrome to inhibit IP address tracking

Google will roll out a new Chrome feature that will enhance privacy by masking user IP addresses. IP addresses allow websites and online services to track activities across websites, but unlike with third-party cookies, users don’t have a direct way to avoid that tracking. The new Google Chrome feature, which will be rolled out in stages, will route third-party traffic from specific domains through proxies, rendering user IP addresses invisible to the domains.

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Data Provenance Explorer Audits Popular AI Training Data Sets

October 31, 2023

Sharing data on the Internet is like giving car keys to a teenager: once you’ve done it, you’ll never track where they’ve gone.  Channeling anxious parents everywhere, a coalition of researches from MIT, Cohere for AI, and 11 other institutions has released Data Provenance Explorer,  which audits the contents of nearly 2,000 widely used training data sets.  You won’t be surprised that there’s a lot of missing information and unauthorized use; you may be surprised how often they warn that licenses limited to non-commercial use will stifle growth of new... Read More >

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Apple’s feature to hide iPhone & iPad Wi-Fi addresses doesn’t actually work

October 31, 2023

For three years, Apple claimed it was protecting the unique MAC Wi-Fi addresses of iPhones and iPads when those joined a network, but it’s just been revealed that this feature doesn’t actually work. In fact, while this unique address was supposed to have been hidden and replaced with a private one, Apple devices have continued to display the real one. This means individuals can be tracked from network to network because the permanent MAC still broadcasted to all other connected devices, but just in a different field.

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