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By Wayt Texas sued Google on Thursday for allegedly collecting residents’ facial and voice data without their consent – and accused the tech giant of turning millions of everyday Texans …
Read MoreBy Wayt Facebook, Instagram and TikTok’s iPhone apps are capable of tracking everything users type in their in-app internet browsers, according to warnings from a security researcher. All three popular …
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By Wayt A key European privacy regulator has opened two probes into TikTok’s handling of user data, adding to the popular Chinese app’s regulatory woes on both sides of the …
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By Wayt Apple bowed to privacy and civil liberties advocates Friday when it agreed to delay and modify a controversial plan to scan users’ photos for child pornography. The company’s tool, called “neuralMatch,” …
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By Wayt Uber dodged a $59 million fine from California regulators over the company’s refusal to share information about sexual assault and harassment claims. Now, both parties say they have …
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By Elisa Facebook lost a legal battle Friday with Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over a European Union privacy decision that could result in the social network being forced to stop …
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By Manskar WhatsApp is pressing ahead with a privacy policy update that sparked a backlash last month — but it promised to give people plenty of time to review the changes. …
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By Vega WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of its upcoming privacy rules amid growing backlash from users over how their data will be shared with parent company Facebook. Users in …
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By Jack Google won EU antitrust approval on Thursday for its $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit after agreeing to restrictions on how it will use customers’ health-related data. The deal …
Read More By Vega A new security feature in iOS 14 has caught TikTok spying on millions of its users. The popular social media platform was caught red-handed copying text from a …
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By Vega In rolling out their coronavirus tracking system to developers, Apple and Google have confirmed that it will ban location tracking by other official apps. But the decision, which …
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By Mccarth BERLIN – Germany hopes to launch a smartphone app within weeks to help trace coronavirus infections after a broad political consensus emerged that adopting an approach pioneered by …
Read More By Crothers It should not come as a great shock that Facebook tracks your online behavior and partners with companies to target you with ads. But reigning in what Facebook …
Read More By Rajneesh Indian law enforcement agencies should be able to break end-to-end encryption to hunt down distributors of child pornography online, a parliamentary panel has urged as the South Asian …
Read More By Vega Alphabet’s Google is teaming up with a health-care company on a secret project to collect personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states, the Wall Street …
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By Nicole Twitter says it mistakenly used the phone numbers and email addresses people provided for security purposes to show advertisements to its users. The company said Tuesday that it …
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By Chris Facebook has been doing its best to convince us that it’s concerned about user privacy and security, but it’s not doing a great job. Just a few days …
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By Crothers Sextortion is seeing an uptick after a lull at the beginning of the year. After relative inactivity during the past several months, sextortion scams are back on the …
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By Nicolas Facebook plans to roll out a feature to allow users to see what companies track them — and to control which of that data gets shared with Facebook. …
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By Vega A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc.’s effort to undo a class-action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users …
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