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US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces plans to regulate sale of personal data
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New Saturn app says only students can see user data; this doesn’t seem true
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Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines
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How to quickly get to the important truth inside any privacy policy
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Meta's social media platforms will be temporarily barred from behavioral advertising in Norway after a ruling from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority
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Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany
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Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb
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US FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent
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Microsoft to pay $20 million US Federal Trade Commission settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for kids
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Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers
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This free TV comes with two screens - Would you give up your data in exchange for a free TV?
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Apple Maps privacy bug may have allowed apps to collect location data without permission
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Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
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Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertisement in Europe
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Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
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Norway's data privacy watchdog fines Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users' consent
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LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries
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533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
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Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
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Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
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Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
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Oracle's BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online.
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Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
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Google wary of sharing user location data in pandemic fight
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Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules
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Requesting an export of personal data from Amazon shows how extensively they track your reading habits
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Ring's doorbell app for Android sends sensitive user data to multiple analytics and marketing companies
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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
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Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
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Denmark frees thirty-two inmates over flaws in phone geolocation evidence – two-month moratorium on the use of mobile phone records
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Flaws in cellphone evidence prompt review of 10,000 verdicts in Denmark
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Reddit user requested all the personal info Epic Games has on him and Epic sent that info to a random person
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How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
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Documents reveal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement using driver location data from local police for deportations
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Telcos sold highly sensitive customer GPS data
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Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8m users
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Alphabet to shut Google+ social site after user data exposed
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A life insurance company wants to track your fitness data
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Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies
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Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data?
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Venmo's public API exposes millions of transactions, startling users
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‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short
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The price of Google's new conveniences? Your data.
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