A vintage article from 1997 about personal data in HBR: "As consumers take control of information about themselves, companies will have to pay for it."

From changing privacy settings to putting limits on those infuriating notifications, here’s how to take control of Slack.

An algorithm built in the US correctly identified people with Covid-19 by the sound of their coughs.

Thanks to GDPR, big tech is phasing out third party cookies and advertising identifiers - the technologies that ad tech companies use to track our actions online, share data with one another and build profiles about us without our knowledge or consent. That is good news for privacy and transparency, but the ad industry is coming out with cookie ‘alternatives’ that still allow companies to share our personal data. The one that is gaining traction now is Unified ID 2.0 which uses hashed emails as a way of identifying users across domains and devices.

More than 20 experts from the MyData community compiled a collective response to the act. Many of them representing personal data intermediaries. The official publication of the European Commission proposal is expected within a few weeks.

The UK’s data watchdog is facing a legal challenge after it took the decision to quietly close a complaint against the adtech industry’s high velocity background trading of personal data. The legal challenge was reported earlier by Politico.