Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says

Collection of recent privacy, policy and cybercrime developments: a webXray audit of California web traffic found 194 online advertising services routinely ignore legally defined, globally standard opt-out signals, undermining user tracking preferences. Virginia passed a law banning sales of precise geolocation within a 1,750-foot radius to curb data-broker pinpointing of consumers. A new ransomware family dubbed “JanaWare,” active since 2020, is targeting Turkish citizens and enforces execution constraints based on system locale and external IP geolocation. Russia added social network Bluesky