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All Your Child’s Data Belongs To Us This week in the Privacy News, TikTok promises not to share user data with China, Police may get contactless fingerprinting, and fitbit tracks all your sleep. Also Instagram wants age verification selfies and day care apps are a pandora’s box of spyware. We also look at several security […]

Android Spyware Images Exposed Online This week in the Privacy News, Meta enables strangers to chat with you be default, KMart uses Facial ID technology to tracker customers around the store down under. Also, WiFi probing can expose and ID you based on trusted networks and geo location data, and an android stalkerware exposes images […]

Apple to Track Your Meds Today in Privacy News, Meta ends work on a new smart watch, UK police were spying on teens and lying about it, and a privacy violating marketplace was taken down. Also, Apple has new features to track your meds. We also look at security news. Armed Drones in Schools? Today […]

DuckDuckGo Allows Microsoft Trackers? This week in the Privacy News, Tim Hortons tracked user locations on the secret, Microsoft builds a file sharing tool, and DuckDuckGo allowed Microsoft trackers while blocking others. We also look at several security articles. VMWare Going SAAS Today in the Business News, Linux running on some new and old hardware, […]

Surveil the Children This week in Privacy News, another state rolls out digital ID while NSW ID is compromised, Twitter to pay for their misuse of data, and Clearview ordered to delete more data. Also, Zuckerberg sought to exploit data in Cambridge Analytica and the FTC cracks down on data harvesting in classroom applications. We […]

Amazon Wants Your Shopping List This week in Privacy, Session Replay is in full force, and still no one knows about it. Also Deepfakes can get around ID checks, Samsung and Google colab for sharing health data, and Amazon wants your offline shopping list. We also look at security news. Did Airpods Make a Kid […]

Google Pretends to be Private This week in the Privacy News, Clearview AI cannot sell to private companies, Facebook discontinues some data harvesting, ICE buys a lot of surveillance data, and the EU wants to end encryption to find CSAM. Also, Google pretends to care about privacy with new controls, but is it really private? […]

Don’t Try This New VPN Today in Privacy News, Nest is now integrating health data from Fitbit and Google, several mental health apps are privacy nightmares, and the big three are combining efforts to kill the password. Also we see drones tracking people and a new VPN is integrated into Edge to give MS all […]

Alexa, Now With Ad Targeting! This week in Privacy News, Google takes a step towards personal privacy, Biden wants to track all drone users, and Facebook does not know how to control it’s data. Also, a new report finds that Amazon Alexa data is now used to target ads to users. We also look at […]

Judge Says Websites Can Be Scraped This week in Privacy News, Apple Privacy Labels are not as helpful as people are led to believe, Android call recording apps are going offline, and LinkedIn failed to ward of the data scrappers. We also look at some subscription and security news. Is DuckDuckGo Censoring More? This week […]