The CDC used location data from tens of millions of Americans’ phones to track compliance with lockdown and vaccination mandates…
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Facebook warns Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will slow growth
Facebook reported higher second-quarter sales and profit, but struck a cautious tone looking ahead, warning that growth could stall as Apple…
Four U.S. Congressmen: Apple is ‘a pawn in China’s malfeasance’
Four U.S. Congressmen have accused Apple of being “a pawn in China’s malfeasance” by risking users privacy in the CCP-controlled country…
Apple’s users privacy push helps ad firms recover from COVID-19 response
The move by Apple to promote user privacy is creating an opportunity for advertising companies that were hit hard by the response to COVID…
Google battles multi-billion pound British class action over alleged iPhone tracking
A proposed multi-billion pound British class action against Google, which alleges the internet giant secretly tracked millions of iPhones…
Twitter CFO says Apple’s new privacy change will level the playing field
Twitter CFO Ned Segal said the company is feeling confident as it prepares for Apple’s planned privacy update to iOS 14 where users will…
Facebook tries ads to convince users to allow themselves to be tracked
Facebook on Thursday launched an ad campaign that attempts to convince users to allow themselves to be tracked so that Facebook can serve…
Facebook attempts to convince users to let themselves be tracked ahead of Apple’s privacy tool
Facebook plans to attempt to convince users allow the company to further invade their privacy by approving tracking of their iPhones and iPads…
No, Facebook did not log out users to install tracking software on Apple iPhones
A rumor has ben circulating that a recent app outage was planned so Facebook’s developers could install tracking software onto Apple iPhones…
Apple delays iOS 14 ad tracking policy that had Facebook fuming
Apple is delaying its new rules around in-app ad tracking in iOS 14, postponing the disclosure requirement that had Facebook publicly fuming…
Facebook warns that Apple’s privacy-focused iOS 14 could utterly crush its ad network
Facebook wrote in the risk factors section of its most recent quarterly SEC filing: “We rely on data signals from user activity on websites…
Google-backed advertising groups criticize Apple’s new warnings on user tracking
Digital advertisers, backed by Google, on Friday criticized Apple’s plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them…
Google faces $5 billion lawsuit for tracking people in ‘private’ mode
Google faces a lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of invading people’s privacy and tracking internet use even when browsers are set to “private” mode…
Why Apple is trusted more than Google
Apple’s business model allows it to focus on prioritizing user privacy over selling ad targeting. Google gives away its software and collect data from users…
Why you should begin using ‘Sign in with Apple’
Most social sign-in services act a little like people-tracking honey pots…
iPhone users could get £750 from Google ‘illegal’ tracking of data, including race, health, politics and sexuality
Google siphoned personal data, including information on physical and mental heath, political affiliations, sexuality and sexual interests from iPhone users…
U.S. appeals court voids Google ‘cookie’ privacy settlement that paid Safari, Explorer browser users nothing
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Google’s class-action settlement meant to resolve claims it invaded the privacy of millions of computer users…
Should Apple have its own search engine?
Apple CEO Tim Cook was made to answer a very uncomfortable question…
Tim Cook: Why Apple accepts billions annually from Google to be Safari’s default search engine despite privacy concerns
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t name names when he spoke out against the privacy practices…
DuckDuckGo: What it’s like to use a search engine that values your privacy
DuckDuckGo prides itself on not tracking users…
Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic
Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…
Apple launches new website devoted to privacy, showing off features of iPhones and Macs
The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…
Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, including users’ photos to build facial recognition profiles for Russian government
Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…
FBI investigating Facebook security breach where attackers accessed 30 million users’ personal information
Facebook revealed on Friday that a previously announced security breach on its platform…
Facebook discovers security breach affecting 50 million users
Facebook Inc. has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts…
Facebook is giving advertisers access to users’ shadow contact information
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor…
42% of U.S. users have ‘taken a break’ from Facebook; 28% have deleted the Facebook app in the past year
Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship…
Alphabet Inc’s Google could face $4.3 billion claim in U.K. iPhone privacy case
iPhone users suing Google over data-collection claims may be seeking as much as 3.2 billion pounds ($4.29 billion)…
How to delete the search, browsing and viewing history Google keeps on you
Google is making it easier to see the search, browsing and YouTube viewing history it keeps on you…
The ‘No Google’ Little Snitch profile
I occasionally use Chrome as browser on macOS…
Google could be forced to pay over five million iPhone users £2.7 billion for selling their data without their consent
Google could be forced to pay over five million iPhone users £2.7 billion in compensation…
Sorry, but Silicon Valley isn’t special anymore
Steve Jobs once said, speaking about the irreverent culture he helped create…
How Google is secretly recording Android settlers, monitoring millions of conversations every day and storing the creepy audio files
Google has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices
Google Chrome under attack: Have you used one of these hijacked extensions?
Attackers have been phishing developers to compromise Chrome extensions to spread…
Apple’s iPhone turns ten: No product in recent history has changed people’s lives more
The firm’s approach to data privacy will determine Apple’s success in the coming years…
Google to pay $5.5 million for sneaking around Apple’s privacy settings to collect user data
Perhaps if Google had taken its own ‘don’t be evil’ motto to heart…
UK Supreme Court allows Google to appeal ruling granting Apple Safari users the right to sue over ad tracking
The UK’s Supreme Court has granted Google permission to appeal against…
Apple iAd executive leaves for Drawbridge which tracks users across devices
iAd has great assets and great capabilities, but…
Why I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo
While its main draw is privacy, DuckDuckGo has another killer feature…
Why Apple should buy DuckDuckGo
One of the most important, hardest-to-build, and useful Internet services…
Google defeated in English Court of Appeal; landmark decision opens door for litigation by millions of British Apple users
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has dismissed an attempt by Google…
Apple adds DuckDuckGo option to iOS 8 Safari, ‘a search engine that doesn’t track users’
In iOS 8, users who value their privacy can choose to make the DuckDuckGo search engine the default…