Sep 21, 2021
We at Brave Research just published a technical report called “Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0” on arXiv. This blog post summarizes our findings and puts them in perspective for Brave users.
Apr 12, 2021
Brave opposes FLoC, a recent Google proposal that would have your browser share your browsing behavior and interests by default with every site and advertiser with which you interact.
Mar 8, 2021
You can learn quite a bit about a browser from observing the requests it makes in its first moments with a new user profile. Often, a cursory examination will tell you a great deal about how the browser thinks about, and handles, user privacy and security.
Aug 31, 2020
Brave Research is a highly dynamic team of researchers and developers whose goal is to push the envelope when it comes to some of the more adventurous aspects and needs of the Brave browser and the underlying ecosystem.
Aug 17, 2020
Brave Research presents THEMIS, a private-by-design ad platform that makes a significant step towards decentralizing the ad ecosystem.
Jun 22, 2020
Following a court decision on Friday, it is now highly likely that California will curtail "cross-context behavioral advertising”.
May 20, 2020
Senior representatives of advertisers, publishers, and intermediaries discuss two years of the the GDPR in a discussion hosted by Brave.
Apr 27, 2020
New data from Brave reveals that European governments have not equipped their national authorities to enforce the GDPR. Brave has called on the European Commission to launch an infringement procedure against 27 European governments.
Apr 24, 2020
Last year I did a review of several popular desktop browsers, focusing exclusively on what they do when you launch the browser for the first time. Today I decided to take a look at various browsers available on iOS 13…
Mar 16, 2020
Brave filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.
Feb 18, 2020
Brave’s submission to the UK Competition & Markets Authority shows how to fix the RTB market and end Google’s advertising monopoly.
Feb 6, 2020
Google recently announced that their Chrome Web browser will — with luck, and if a bunch of other conditions come to pass — probably start blocking third-party cookies.
Feb 4, 2020
Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites. "Surveillance on UK council websites", a new report from Brave, reveals the extent of private companies’ surveillance of UK citizens when they seeking help for addiction, disability, and poverty from their local government authorities.
Jan 21, 2020
This note highlights the inadequacies of Google and IAB proposals to reform RTB, and rebuts the argument for inaction.
Jan 17, 2020
The ICO has today announced that it will be taking no substantive action to fix "RTB", the largest data breach ever recorded in the UK. Regulatory ambivalence cannot continue. We are considering all options to put an end to the systemic breach, including direct challenges to the controllers and judicial oversight of the ICO.
Nov 13, 2019
Brave exposes an inflection point in the online ecosystem, with more users feeling increasingly concerned with protecting their online privacy and fed up with big tech. Whether due to recent data privacy investigations, high-profile breaches, or emerging government regulations, online privacy is a rising concern for users across the nation. According to a new survey of 1,500 U.S. web users conducted by Brave Software, 76 percent of users feel more concerned with protecting their online privacy than they did one year ago, and 88 percent wish they had more control over how large companies like Google and Facebook use their personal data. It’s time for a change.
Nov 13, 2019
Brave has recently written to the U.S Senate and Congress about foreign state actors using targeted ads to run code on US government computers
Nov 11, 2019
Ryan's tells leaders from ten parliaments: the RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued.
Oct 29, 2019
Privacy laws need to be overhauled, which is why Brave is asking Californians to support its California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and help change the internet.
Oct 21, 2019
We have written before on Brave’s performance, energy and bandwidth benefits for the user. Brave Shields is our primary mechanism for protecting user privacy, but many users know by now that ad and tracker blocking (or just ad blocking for short) makes the web faster and generally better for them. So far Brave’s estimates of the users’ time saved have been very conservative and somewhat naive: we take the total number of ads and trackers blocked, and multiply that by 50 milliseconds.
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