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via fastcompany: According to an analysis by the advocacy group Privacy International, a $17 Android smartphone called MYA2 MyPhone, which was launched in December 2017, has a host of privacy … Read more
by Playaguy When Google takes full Page ads out telling us we can trust them with our dat, you can be sure we cannot trust them with our data. Let’s all … Read more
via theverge: Apple rolled out iOS 13.1 and iPadOS earlier today, which should fix some of the bugs found in the pretty rocky iOS 13.0 release. But the company is already … Read more
via denverite: Connor Swatling doesn’t want Big Brother watching you. The Denver resident has introduced a ballot measure banning the Denver Police Department and every other city entity from using … Read more
via forbes: Over the past couple months I’ve been held up on a regular basis by the fact that Google has been overriding my LastPass credential window with their own despite … Read more
via Bloomberg: I had decades of digital exhaust to clean up. “Your data across different companies is being pulled together by data brokers and ad companies. If the government asked … Read more
via arstechnica: While consumers and experts alike wonder if Facebook’s size and outsized global market power are what allow it to play fast and loose with user data and privacy, Wu … Read more
via fastcompany: In the fall of 2018, Google released a new version of reCaptcha, the company’s widely used bot detector. reCaptcha v3, as its called, is great at detecting bots but it … Read more
FTC votes to approve $5 billion settlement with Facebook in privacy probe The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook that could … Read more
via slashdot: mrspoonsi shares a report from the Guardian: Facebook usage has plummeted over the last year, according to data seen by the Guardian, though the company says usage by other measures continues … Read more
by Simon Black For this Friday’s roll-up of bizarre and disturbing stories from around the world, we found ourselves zeroing-in on some ridiculous data privacy violations. Soccer app spies on fans … Read more
by Ron Paul Last week the New York Times published some of President Trump’s 1980s and 1990s tax returns information. The information detailed President Trump’s financial difficulties during that time. While … Read more
Authored by Derrick Broze via The Mind Unleashed blog, A new court filing argues that Google is helping the U.S. government circumvent Fourth Amendment protections in order to conduct warrantless … Read more
FBI’s Facial Recognition Programs Under Fire Over Privacy, Accuracy Concerns The bureau has largely ignored the Government Accountability Office’s concerns about its use of facial recognition in criminal investigations. The … Read more
by: JD Heyes (Natural News) A freshman Republican senator lambasted Google on Tuesday for invading users’ privacy by tracking them and building profiles on them that the tech giant later … Read more
