Lena Cohen

Lena Cohen is an investigative journalist at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with a focus on technology and privacy. She has extensively covered Google's Privacy Sandbox and its implications for user privacy and online tracking. Her work often highlights the contradictions in Google's policies, as well as the potential deceptive practices employed by the company to maintain its dominant position in the market. Through her reporting, Cohen aims to educate readers on these issues and advocate for more transparent and accountable tech practices.

Biography:  https://www.eff.org/about/staff/lena-cohen

77%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

90%

Examples:

  • Google's Privacy Sandbox reinforces its commitment to behavioral advertising despite privacy improvements over third-party cookies.
  • Privacy Sandbox protects Google's bottom line at the expense of user privacy.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • Google allows advertisers to include a unique ID with this data, enabling them to build a profile of the user's browsing habits.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Ad measurement in Privacy Sandbox allows advertisers to track ad performance by storing data in the user's browser.
  • Google Chrome lags behind other browsers in default protections against online tracking.

Deceptions

35%

Examples:

  • Despite being billed as a privacy feature, Privacy Sandbox protects Google's bottom line at the expense of your privacy.
  • Google is rewriting the rules for the internet in a way that benefits itself first.

Recent Articles

Google Abandons Plan to Eliminate Third-Party Cookies in Chrome, Introduces New User Choice Experience

Google Abandons Plan to Eliminate Third-Party Cookies in Chrome, Introduces New User Choice Experience

Broke On: Monday, 22 July 2024 Google reverses course on eliminating third-party cookies in Chrome, instead introducing a new user consent platform following feedback from advertisers and regulators. Critics argue that Google's proposed alternatives, FLoC and Topics API, could lead to new privacy risks and harm competition.