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Websites offering mental-health tests are selling data to online advertisers, researchers say.

Ismail Ajjawi, 17, a Palestinian from Lebanon, said he was denied entry after a customs agent took issue with posts written by others.

Oh hey, y’all, it’s Friday! It’s August! Which means it’s a great day for Facebook to drop a little news it would prefer you don’t notice. News that you won’t find a link to on the homepage of Facebook’s Newsroom — which is replete with colorfully ill…

We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.

We've seen some pretty poor security in dating apps over recent years; breaches of personal data, leaking users locations and more. But this one really takes

Facebook is facing new questions over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica debacle even after a record settlement with the FTC ended a year-long investigation by regulators into the matter.

This step by step guide covers how to stop Apple from potentially listening to your Siri recordings by turning off server-side logging.

This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our
analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a
third party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of
major companies, which we identify. We successfully extracted privacy policies
for 3,856 sites, 17% of the total. The policies were written such that one
might need a two-year college education to understand them. Our content
analysis of the sample's domains indicated 44.97% of them expose or suggest a
specific gender/sexual identity or interest likely to be linked to the user. We
identify three core implications of the quantitative results: 1) the
unique/elevated risks of porn data leakage versus other types of data, 2) the
particular risks/impact for vulnerable populations, and 3) the complications of
providing consent for porn site users and the need for affirmative consent in
these online sexual interactions.

In a new report, Apple takes its turn in the crosshairs over how it reviews user recordings.

For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling that their users did not want their browsing activity tracked. Despite long hours and backing from...

Users value their privacy, and Apple understands that. We even see related PR activities.

Google employees are apparently stopping people in the streets of some major cities in an effort to gather face data, probably as it prepares for Pixel 4.

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