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China reveals audit of 320,000 local apps, with 34 booted from app stores and hundreds of devs warned they could suffer same fate

Privacy crackdown in the land of ubiquitous surveillance, where 5G now blankets all cities

23 Oct 2020

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

Massive public records request reveals scale of warrantless surveillance

21 Oct 2020

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again

15 Oct 2020

Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data

Banking giant rapped over management of two US bit barns

13 Oct 2020

Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts

It was just code left over from a prototype, says hardware maker

12 Oct 2020

Global Privacy Control emerges as latest attempt to let netizens choose whether they want to be tracked online

It's Do Not Track II: The Wrath of Ashkan and Sebastian... Caaaaaaaan't you stop stalking us around the internet

10 Oct 2020

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Don't worry, says the internet giant, this doesn't happen too often

09 Oct 2020

NHS England offers £15m to AI firms for software that helps with stroke victims' treatment as COVID-19 stretches service

Raising inevitable concerns over protection of patient data

08 Oct 2020

It's 2020, so let's just go ahead and let Amazon have everyone's handprints so it can process payments

Read mine off my forehead, Jeffrey

30 Sep 2020

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Pro-privacy upstart claims EU antitrust remedy is not fit for purpose

29 Sep 2020

Exercise-tracking app Strava to give away data sweated out after four billion runs, rides and rambles

Anonymous trove offered to help urban planners cope with expected post-plague bike boom

28 Sep 2020

Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?

Disclosed tracking, helicopter parenting programs are still kosher

17 Sep 2020

Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks

No way to sugarcoat this: New York AG eclairs the 2015 data theft matter settled

15 Sep 2020

£2.5bn sueball claims Google slurps kids' YouTube browsing habits then sells them on

Video platform is not for under-13s, insists spokesman

15 Sep 2020

Adtech's bogeymen are tracking everything - even your web visits to mental health charities, claim campaigners

So says Pro Privacy after automatedly gazing at 82,000 sites

11 Sep 2020

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Anti-social network asked to stop piping Irish uncles' mutterings to America

10 Sep 2020

Apple: Yeah, about those ground-breaking privacy features in iOS 14 – don't expect them until next year

'Fundamental right to privacy' can wait – Facebook and others are annoyed

03 Sep 2020

Facebook fires sueball at 'malicious' app SDK makers, accuses them of gobbling up people's personal information

Vacuuming up data? That's our job!

28 Aug 2020

Articles about Privacy

China reveals audit of 320,000 local apps, with 34 booted from app stores and hundreds of devs warned they could suffer same fate

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data

Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts

Global Privacy Control emerges as latest attempt to let netizens choose whether they want to be tracked online

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

NHS England offers £15m to AI firms for software that helps with stroke victims' treatment as COVID-19 stretches service

It's 2020, so let's just go ahead and let Amazon have everyone's handprints so it can process payments

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Exercise-tracking app Strava to give away data sweated out after four billion runs, rides and rambles

Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?

Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks

£2.5bn sueball claims Google slurps kids' YouTube browsing habits then sells them on

Adtech's bogeymen are tracking everything - even your web visits to mental health charities, claim campaigners

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Apple: Yeah, about those ground-breaking privacy features in iOS 14 – don't expect them until next year

Facebook fires sueball at 'malicious' app SDK makers, accuses them of gobbling up people's personal information

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