Users of public transportation are mainly interested in one thing: getting to the right place conveniently and fast. So do I. Public transportation systems around the world struggle with maintaining their systems as efficient as possible. Transports for London (TfL) is perhaps in the avant-garde here. They are on the…
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Websites routinely include third-party hosted resources - images, scripts, stylesheets and so on. It's now a standard practice. One thing to keep in mind is that if your website includes a JavaScript script from another site (example.org): <script src=“https://example.org/CoolLib.js"></script>…
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Recently I wrote about the new IAB (ad industry) initiative meaning to fight fraud in programmatic advertising. You can find my previous post here. As the ads.txt standard shows which Ads Exchanges are brokering ads space (somewhat related with exchange of user data), I explored the options of using…
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When governments acknowledged that computer hacking is increasingly made by criminals, hacking techniques employed by criminals were simply banned. This has solved the problem; since then we‘re not hearing of any data theft, fraud and so on. Right. In the European Union, General Data Protection Regulation will enter into…
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Web privacy and transparency engineering can work both for businesses and users. Sometimes technologies can effectively open the opportunities for enhancing transparency even without a clear intention of doing so. In this post, I’m analyzing the extension to OpenRTB (Real-Time Bidding specification) which is meant to decrease the rate…
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