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Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance: Google’s latest flagship smartphone raises concerns about user privacy and security. It frequently transmits private user data to the tech giant before any app is installed. Moreover, it was discovered that it potentially has remote management capabilities without user awareness or approval.
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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users: Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
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Meta faces data retention limits on its EU ad business after top court ruling: The European Union’s top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta’s data retention policies. It ruled on Friday that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people’s information for ad targeting indefinitely.
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How Social Media Is Killing Privacy: Influencers on Instagram and TikTok have created a world where not only privacy is eroded, but people give it away voluntarily for social validation.
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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge: Google must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps — and distribute third-party stores.
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