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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December 10, 2019

Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules

Delete the data, and don't do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

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October 11, 2019

Facebook flags thousands of kids as interested in gambling, booze

According to a new report, its algorithmic labelling may expose minors to age-inappropriate, targeted advertising.

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June 27, 2019

YouTube’s antics with kids’ data prompts call for FTC to force change

Sen. Markey and 2 consumer groups said the Google-owned service must comply with COPPA and should be held accountable for not doing so.

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January 18, 2019

Did you know you can see the ad boxes Facebook sorts us into?

...or that they can edit the (often inaccurate) pigeon-holes Facebook likes to put us in, a study found.

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December 12, 2018

Phones are selling location data from “trusted” apps

Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US, updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times has found.

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August 13, 2018

Siri is listening to you, but she’s NOT spying, says Apple

Apple's working to keep iPhones from eavesdropping on us, through privacy policies, short buffer windows, local storage, and app review.

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August 01, 2018

High-schoolers’ data put up for sale after being scraped from surveys

Millions of students' data is being sold after being harvested from college-planning questionnaires or surveys that come with the SAT or PSAT tests.

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April 18, 2018

Facebook: 3 reasons we’re tracking non-users

It's just how the internet works, Facebook said.

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