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Weekly News Digest
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July 25, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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New Search Engine Empowers Users to Find Privacy Violations on the Web
Brian Merchant writes the following in “This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations” for WIRED:[F]ormer Google engineer [Tim Libert] has built a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking. … By searching for a specific term or website, you can use webXray to see which sites are tracking you, and where all that data goes. … Libert plans to launch the website to the public, so anyone can get a sense of how sprawling the web of privacy violations being made every day really is, along with a premium tier for regulators and attorneys, who can use the tool to assess those violations and address them. … For more information, read the article.
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Brandi Scardilli
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