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Meta could face further squeeze on surveillance ads model in EU

Meta’s tracking ads business could be facing further legal blows in the European Union: An influential adviser to the bloc’s top court affirmed Thursday that the region’s privacy laws limit how long people’s data can be used for targeted advertising. In the non-legally binding opinion, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos said use of personal data for

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Security bugs in popular phone-tracking app iSharing exposed users’ precise locations

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

Last week when a security researcher said he could easily obtain the precise location from any one of the millions of users of a widely used phone-tracking app, we had to see it for ourselves. Eric Daigle, a computer science and economics student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, found the vulnerabilities in

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Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo Gen Z users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report, they noted that dating apps have become more data-hungry and intrusive. The organization

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UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year resulted in a huge theft of Americans’ private healthcare data. UnitedHealth said in a statement on Monday that a ransomware gang took files containing personal data and protected health information that it says may

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European police chiefs target E2EE in latest demand for ‘lawful access’

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

In the latest iteration of the never-ending (and always head-scratching) crypto wars, Graeme Biggar, the director general of the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA), has called on Instagram’s parent, Meta, to rethink its continued rollout of end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The call follows a joint declaration on Sunday by European police chiefs, including the U.K.’s own,

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Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US spying law that critics say expands government surveillance

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

Lawmakers passed legislation early Saturday reauthorizing and expanding a controversial U.S. surveillance law shortly after the powers expired at midnight, rejecting opposition by privacy advocates and lawmakers. The bill, which passed on a 60-34 vote, reauthorizes powers known as Section 702 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to collect the

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Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here’s how to remove it

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

Consumer-grade spyware apps that covertly and continually monitor your private messages, photos, phone calls and real-time location are a growing problem for Android users. This guide can help you identify and remove common surveillance apps from your Android phone, including TheTruthSpy, KidsGuard and other apps. READ OUR EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION Consumer-grade spyware apps are frequently sold

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Cape dials up $61M from a16z and more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data

Privacy / Sasandara Dilmina

AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts affected — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. On Thursday, a startup called Cape — based out of Washington, D.C., and founded by a former executive from Palantir — is announcing

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