April 03, 2019

Is your hard drive exposed online?

Over 13,500 internet-connected storage devices have been exposed online by users who didn't set passwords for them.

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March 19, 2019

Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code

Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission.

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February 28, 2019

US House and Senate debate new data privacy law

A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users' data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*

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January 21, 2019

Tim Cook demands a way for users to delete their personal data

The Apple CEO wants the FTC to set up a data-broker clearinghouse so people can see the data that companies have collected on them.

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October 19, 2018

Apple privacy portal lets you see everything it knows about you

The Apple website's privacy and data area lets you download and correct your data.

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August 24, 2018

Facebook pulls its privacy-violating Onavo VPN from Apple’s App Store

Apple last week suggested that Facebook remove its Onavo security app from the App store due to privacy rule violations. On Wednesday, Facebook complied.

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August 03, 2018

How safe is your DNA data?

A group of DNA collection and genealogy websites have agreed on new guidelines for handling sensitive genetic and family data.

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May 01, 2018

Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica’s Aleksandr Kogan

The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is.

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April 13, 2018

Facebook shines a little light on ‘shadow profiles’

Shadow... what now?

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