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Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say
Photo: STR/AFP (Getty Images) When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often “recycle” your old one—assigning it…
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Google Misled Android Users About Location Data, Australian Court Finds
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) In the first ruling of its kind, the Australian Federal Court announced on Friday that…
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Minnesota Has Begun Crafting Privacy Policies for Connected Transit Tech
Photo: Sean Gallup / Staff (Getty Images) Connected and automated vehicles are the future, but they carry with them a…
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What Is Google’s FLoC Technology?
Photo: David Ramos (Getty Images) About two weeks ago, millions of Google Chrome users were signed up for an experiment…
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LinkedIn Data Scraped From 500 Million Profiles Leaked Online: Report
Photo: Edward Smith (Getty Images) Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked…
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Facebook Seems Desperate To Pass This Latest Data Breach Off As Old News
Photo: JOSH EDELSON / Contributor (Getty Images) In the aftermath of bombshell reports of a massive data breach that may…
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Hacker Posts Phone Numbers, Other Data of 533M Facebook Users
Photo: Josh Edelson / AFP (Getty Images) If you have a Facebook account, you should probably be keeping your guard…
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Facebook Lets Users Restrict Commenting to a Small Circle of Friends
File photo of Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergPhoto: Bill Clark/AFP (Getty Images) Facebook users will soon get more control over who…
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Facebook May Be in ‘Stronger Position’ After Apple Privacy Update
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) Facebook has pushed back against Apple’s planned rollout of anti-tracking tools at every possible opportunity,…
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Drug Charges Are Attack on ‘Right to Privacy’
The seal of the U.S. Department of Justice as Attorney General Merrick Garland addresses staff on his first day in…
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