Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says
2026-04-15T20:51:57Z•9da9c06ff47b3ae8d5c785b7e1f333545324240282a92af4516e34bf2d1241d0
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What happened
Collection of security and privacy incidents: a webXray audit of California web traffic found 194 online advertising services ignoring legally defined, globally standard opt-out signals (privacy/tracking failure); NIST announced it will limit work and only add details for CVE entries meeting a higher threshold due to a surge in submissions (change to CVE/vulnerability triage process); a 16-year-old was arrested in Northern Ireland after a cyberattack disrupted access to educational systems used by potentially hundreds of thousands of students (school network disruption); the UK government has警
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- 2026-04-15T20:51:57Z
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- Yes
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