How GM tricked millions of drivers into being spied on (including me) (gifted link)
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The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data
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FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price
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ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
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GM sued for sale of OnStar driving data
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GM cuts ties with two data firms amid heated lawsuit over driver data
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Seems like all socials are being scraped for AI and personal/aggregate data. Is Tildes?
I was just reminded of that again when going back and looking at some of my old posts on reddit which is openly selling online data. Prompted me to use Redact which erases and overwrites comments...
I was just reminded of that again when going back and looking at some of my old posts on reddit which is openly selling online data. Prompted me to use Redact which erases and overwrites comments before deleting them. But that got me wondering if the same is true of Tildes? And how would we know?
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Time to delete your Glassdoor account and data
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Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
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Automakers are sharing consumers’ driving behavior with insurance companies (gifted link)
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Tumblr to begin selling user content to AI generative service companies, opt-out will be per blog
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Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
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Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites
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Google promises unlimited cloud storage; then cancels plan; then tells journalist his life’s work will be deleted without enough time to transfer the data
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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used
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Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data
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Norway's privacy battle with Meta is just getting started – regulator says it's investigating the company's new ad-free subscription services
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Google user data has become a favorite police shortcut
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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
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Norway asks EU regulator European Data Protection Board to fine Facebook owner Meta over privacy breach
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Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing
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Meta lost a legal battle Wednesday to halt a Norwegian ban on its advertising practices that came with hefty daily fines
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X to collect biometric and employment data
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US consumer protection agency 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 FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for US 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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How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads
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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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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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