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FTC May Investigate YouTube Over Child Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently been sent a request from four nonprofit groups in regards to YouTube violating children’s privacy with their targeted ads. YouTube Privacy Violations As reported by arstechnica.com, four nonprofit groups have sent a letter to the US FTC to request that YouTube is investigated…
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Amazon Fined Over $30 Million For Violating Data Privacy of Children
Back in April Amazon was facing a lawsuit surrounding the data that it had been collecting on children through its Alexa smart speakers without parental consent, today that Lawsuit has been won by the US government slapping Amazon with an over $30 Million Fine. Amazon Hit With Over $30 Million…
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Tesla Owner’s Personal Videos Reportedly Being Shared Around In Internal Messaging
Tesla Employees have been passing around private videos recorded by the Tesla vehicle cameras within Tesla’s internal messaging systems. Tesla Sentry Videos Shared Back in 2019, Tesla launched Sentry Mode which was a way of utilising onboard cameras to record suspicious activity around the cars and also to store footage…
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Some Top Android Apps Aren’t as Private as They Claim
Play Store Privacy How private do you think your Android phone is? Well, Mozilla has probably just ruined or confirmed your perspective on your device’s privacy. Mozilla, who is behind the Firefox browser which prides itself on its privacy and security, has conducted a study and found that around 80%…
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Apple Document About Stopping Leaks… Leaks!
It’s not exactly surprising that companies from within the technology sector are exceptionally keen to try and keep leaks to a minimum. Sure, they happen all the time, but often it’s difficult to ascertain whether they are really leaks or whether the company in question might have ‘accidentally’ let something…
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Google to Face Lawsuit Over ‘Incognito Mode’ Allegations!
If you use Google Chrome (and we’re pretty sure most of you reading this do) then you’ll undoubtedly be familiar with the ‘Incognito’ mode function. In a nutshell, it’s a feature within the browser that allows you to search the internet without any automatic associations being made to any of…
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Capcom Issues New Video Privacy Policy to Stop RE8 Spoilers
Back in November, it was revealed that Capcom has suffered a colossally huge data breach. One that had resulted in masses of exceptionally important information, such as game files and even employee/accounting details, being compromised. With the hacking organization seemingly holding this information to random (reportedly asking for an 8…
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Firefox Releases a Beta VPN Addon That You Can Try Out Now!
Despite Firefox being, relatively speaking, quite a small player in the world of internet browsers (with a market share of around 5%) it still has a very strong and loyal fanbase who both love the simplicity of its design and also the fact that developer Mozilla is regularly looking to…
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Adult Company Buys Doxing Website To (Literally) Burn it Down
Doxing, if you are not familiar with the term, is an attempt to find out someone’s true identity who may not wish for certain aspects of it to be publicly known. This is particularly prevalent for if you are on the internet under a pseudonym such as (and purely for…
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Facebook to Pay $5B + $100M for Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook is now facing a $5 billion fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in relation to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This fine is in violation of a 2012 FTC order concerning user data privacy. Furthermore, Facebook will also have a new management structure. Plus, new rules to follow…
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Over 1,000 Android Apps Still Gather Data without Permission
With the number of apps that most people have installed on their phones, privacy can be a very pressing matter. Many do, after all, want to know a fair bit about you. This includes information such as your location, search habits, social media etc. If you think, however, that simply…
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Senior Departure At Facebook Fires Shots At Mark Zuckerberg?
Senior Staff Member Issues Strange Resignation Letter Over the last few months, there has been a number of movements within the senior Facebook team with many long-term members leaving the company. While all of these departures have largely seemed to be amicable chief product officer Chris Cox may have fired…
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Facebook Reels After Fresh Data Sharing Revelations
Facebook Faces Fresh Data Share Criticism With 2018 coming to an end in a little under two weeks, it’s pretty fair to say that it’s been a rough year for Facebook. It seems that Mark Zuckerberg has been spinning plates and all of a sudden, some of them have started…
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