online tracking, web browser tracking

 Tool from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Cover Your Tracks is two things: a tool for users to understand how unique and identifiable their browser makes them online, and a research project to uncover the tools and techniques of online trackers and test the efficacy of privacy add-ons. Running tests on Cover Your Tracks gives you information about your own browser’s privacy protections, and also helps EFF use statistical methods to evaluate the capabilities of third-party trackers and the best forms of protection against them.

  

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/about

Privacy settings on smart speakers

How to curtail Alexa data shared with Amazon
Among smart assistants, Alexa has the most comprehensive and straightforward set of privacy controls. Amazon recently released the Alexa privacy hub, which has a thorough explanation of the types of data collected by the virtual assistant and how to change its privacy settings.

Here’s how to opt out of human vetting:

• Open the Alexa app on your smartphone and tap Settings and then select Alexa Privacy.
• Tap Manage How Your Data Improves Alexa.
• For the control that says Help Improve Amazon Services and Develop New Features, toggle the switch to the off position.

Here’s how to delete your voice recordings:

• In the same Alexa Privacy menu, select Review Voice History.
• In date range, select the time frame of recordings you want to delete, such as All History.
• Tap Delete All Recordings for All History.

from NYTimes