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The Dark Patterns Tipline Wants To Know How Sites Deceive You
Graphic: Electronic Frontier Foundation If you’re fed up with apps and websites using shitty psychological tactics—aka dark patterns—to coerce you…
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What It Means for Your Account
Image: WhatsApp, Graphic: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo) After facing international backlash over impending updates to its privacy policy, WhatsApp has ever-so-slightly…
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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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