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Who Has Your Back in Colombia? Fourth-Annual Report Fuels Progress and Asks For More Fundación Karisma , Colombia’s leading digital rights organization, just launched its fourth annual ¿Dónde Estan Mis Datos? report in collaboration with EFF. The results are even more encouraging than the ones seen in 2017 , with significant improvement in transparency – five companies published transparency reports, and four  publicly explained their procedures around government blocking requests. Every company in the report showed progress from 2017, through there remains work to be done. Based on EFF’s US-based Who Has Your Back? reports , the  ¿Dónde Estan Mis Datos?  project is one of several across Iberoamerican countries that assess ISPs’ public commitments to their users’ privacy in the face of government requests for user data. The report ( available in Spanish ), rates seven companies that, together, account for more than 90% of the mobile and fixed Intern et servic...

Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. Chrome routinely leads the pack in features for security and usability, most recently helping to drive the adoption of HTTPS . But when it comes to privacy, specifically protecting users from tracking, most of its rivals leave it in the dust. Users are more aware of, and concerned about, the harms of pervasive tracking than ever before. So why is Chrome so far behind? It’s because Google still makes most of its money from tracker-driven, behaviorally-targeted ads. The marginal benefit of each additional bit of information about your activities online is relatively small to an advertiser, especially given how much you directly give Google through your searches and use of tools like Google Home. But Google still builds Chrome as if it needs to vacuum up everything it can about your online activities, whether you want it to or not. In the documents that define how the...