Journal

This is where we publish material on how personal-data collection works — from facial biometrics to the routes data takes out of the EU. These aren’t technical breakdowns of specific sites — those are in the Audits section. And this isn’t the text of the regulation — that’s on EUR-Lex (our article-by-article guide is in Russian only). Here we explain the mechanisms a person encounters every day without noticing them.

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8 min read

The seat-back screen sees more than you think: in-flight entertainment and privacy

Of 13 companies checked, only Delta openly describes a viewing log for seat-back screens. What is known about cameras, seat-based advertising and on-board Wi-Fi — and how to check the portal yourself.

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45 min read

Browser fingerprinting: what it is, where it came from and which browser to choose

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13 min read

Eight Microseconds. How the Speed of Data Transmission Affects the Price You Pay for Everything

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15 min read

Dating Apps. The Most Intimate Data in the Least Trustworthy Hands

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12 min read

The Machine That Records Everything

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14 min read

Your Face. Forever

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21 min read

The Overton Window. How Surveillance Became the Norm

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28 min read

The Gap Between the HAR File and the GDPR Article

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13 min read

Psychographics: How Advertising Learns Not What You Do, But Who You Are Inside

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18 min read

The Art of War in the Digital Age

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17 min read

The Five Virtues of a General

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9 min read

The Cycle of Digital Surveillance — in Plain Words

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7 min read

«Eagle Eye». What a 2008 Film Predicted More Precisely Than Forecasts

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8 min read

Digital Surveillance in Russia

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10 min read

By the Time You Finished Reading This Headline — You'd Already Been Sold

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22 min read

Algorithmic Recommendations

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21 min read

What Consent Means in the Digital World

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36 min read

Your Digital Twin. It Already Exists. You Just Didn't Know

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36 min read

Advertising Brokers. The Industry No One Sees

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14 min read

Your Phone as a Surveillance Tool

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31 min read

Children in the Digital World

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27 min read

Where GDPR Came From. The Story Few Know in Full

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8 min read

IoT — Why Smart Devices Are a Hole in Your Home

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6 min read

You Think You're Reading the News. In Fact — the News Is Reading You

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7 min read

How to Find the Identifiers Companies Leave on Your Device

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9 min read

Why Your Data Is Your Security

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7 min read

How to Read a Privacy Policy. What to Look For and What They Hide

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4 min read

Anonymity Doesn't Exist. How the System Recognises You Even Without a Name

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4 min read

Mobile Apps. One App — Dozens of Invisible Guests

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7 min read

How the Browser Leaks Everything About You. A Full Breakdown

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5 min read

Your Holiday Costs More Than You Think

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4 min read

Cookies. The Digital Traces You Leave Everywhere

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3 min read

The Cloud Service, Let Me Reveal the Details

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7 min read

What Your Profile Looks Like at a Data Broker