June 24, 2020

iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, Safari to give us ‘No, thanks!’ option for ad tracking

At WWDC, Apple promised to double down on data protection in its upcoming iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and Safari releases.

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March 04, 2020

Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers

It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.

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March 03, 2020

GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who's taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.

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March 02, 2020

Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.

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February 04, 2020

Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.

Google's Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man's voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.

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January 16, 2020

Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it's not just dating apps that are doing it...

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November 27, 2019

Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.

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September 11, 2019

Facebook says location data in iOS 13, Android 10 may be confusing

The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users' most restrictive settings are.

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August 09, 2019

Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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