webXray

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@webxray is a privacy tool that helps users find privacy violations online. Anyone tried it out yet?

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-…

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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

@DJ_MacHack Two reasons: 1) I have a family to support, that wasn't the case when I did the open source version as a student; 2) the best way to accomplish the mission is to scale up, and that requires money. And trust me that I left *a lot* of Big Tech Money on the table to do this!

hello world. wired.com/story/webxray-…

@classYaction doing what we can!

we'll be back in T -12hrs.

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/0fbf4d…

@madhumita29 The FT’s graphic shows many of the usual suspects involved, but also many companies less well-known to users... Source: FT

@madhumita29 “As medical expenses leave many with less to spend on luxuries, these users may be segregated into ‘data silos’ of undesirables who are then excluded from favourable offers and prices,” - “This forms a subtle, but real, form of discrimination against those perceived to be ill.”

@madhumita29 from the FT used WebXray to scan over 100 health pages.

@mrpaulmay of @webxray will be featured, presenting some findings on Amazon's tracking activities online tonight at 8pm in the UK on @Channel4 @C4Dispatches

Google’s web trackers are all over porn sites, and Incognito mode won’t save you theverge.com/2019/7/18/2069…

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

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

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/opi…

Diagram of data flows to third-parties on major porn sites. Note Alphabet is the holding company of Google.

Read the full article by Elena Maris, Timothy Libert and Jennifer Henrichsen here: arxiv.org/abs/1907.06520

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/opi…