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New study reveals iPhones aren’t as private as you think
Android phones collect more data by volume, but iPhones collect more types of data, a study finds
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There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements
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Scan QR-code menus with a side of caution, say privacy experts | CBC Radio
Restaurant patrons who’ve grown accustomed during the pandemic to whipping out their phones to access menus using QR codes should understand the implications for their personal data, say privacy and c...
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Former Apple engineer says the button on iPhones asking apps not to track you is a ‘dud’ that gives users a ‘false sense of privacy’
The iPhone feature allowing users to “ask app not to track” is sometimes “useless” in stopping third parties from collecting your data, a study found.
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When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to enact new rules to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private messages, photos, search history and more.
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New California law allows academic institutions to pull identifying information of all gun owners from the state registry: name, address, DOB, purchases, etc.
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Telegram is backdoored up the wazoo, only idiots use it.
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
Telegram gives its users more freedom of speech than any other popular mobile application. Unlike other apps, Telegram can’t be pressured by shareholders, cloud providers or advertisers into unjustifi...
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Google CEO sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight, lawsuit alleges
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai in 2019 was warned that describing the company’s Incognito browsing mode as “private” was problematic, yet it stayed the course because he did not want the feature...
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Total surveillance law proposed in Serbia | SHARE Foundation
The public debate on the Draft Law on Internal Affairs has officially introduced into legal procedure provisions for the use of mass biometric surveillance in public spaces in Serbia, advanced technol...
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New iCloud Private Relay service leaks users’ true IP addresses, researcher claims
De-anonymizing users of VPN-like service, launched with iOS 15 yesterday, is ‘easily accomplished’
that's a novel concept!