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USA Today resists FBI subpoena seeking data of those who read story about agents’ killing
The bureau is seeking IP address and other information of those who accessed a story about a February shooting in which two agents were killed.
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Apple is upping AirTags’ privacy measures, and will now alert you more quickly if a strange one is nearby
When Apple announced the tracking tags in April, privacy advocates warned about how they could be used in nefarious ways.
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TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’ – TechCrunch
A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content. Thi...
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PSA: Chinese UC Browser on iOS harvests your data even in incognito mode
UC Browser on iOS harvests your data even in incognito mode - 9to5Mac
Okay, it’s a rather obvious PSA not to install a Chinese web browser on your iPhone, but Alibaba’s UC Browser is actually the 4th most ...
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Technically you don't even need the cookie banner anymore.
noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints
Today, noyb.eu sent over 500 draft complaints to companies who use unlawful cookie banners - making it the largest wave of complaints since the GDPR came into force.
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Facebook pays for study that says Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes are bad
Facebook has funded a study into Apple’s new iOS 14 changes regarding user privacy and its new App Tracking Transparency feature. Unsurprisingly, the paper says that Apple’s policies harm the entire e...
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Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Amazon’s experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.
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They really don't though.
Facebook Still Doesn’t Get It--People Actually Care About Their Privacy
The company funded a research paper that says Apple’s iOS 14.5 update is anticompetitive.
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‘Apple is eating our lunch’: Google employees admit in lawsuit that the company made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
Google misled phone makers into hiding privacy settings users liked in order to collect more location data, according to newly unredacted documents.
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Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer’s downfall
Carl Stewart was tracked down after posting an image of Stilton cheese in an online chat.
