data harvesting
MembersWhatsApp’s New Update Can Shield You or Sell You Out
Used with care it hides what you give away, and used carelessly it swaps one exposure for another.
MembersHow Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — and How to Escape It
The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
Samsung Bakes Perplexity AI Into Galaxy S26 OS, Raising Privacy Concerns
The AI era’s defining feature isn’t intelligence; it’s installation without asking.
MembersA Google Docs Alternative That Can’t See a Word You Write
A top contender for encrypted, privacy-focused document, calendar, and spreadsheet tools.
MembersSurveillance on Wheels: Why You Shouldn’t Connect Your Phone To Your Car
Your morning commute is being converted into a behavioral credit score, and your car’s not even pretending to ask permission.
UK Health Secretary tries to guilt citizens into NHS private company data grab
Hancock tells the British people to hand over data to “save lives.”
T-Mobile to increase collection of customers’ online activity to share with advertisers
Others are already doing it. Time for a VPN.
Colleges are secretly using social media data to rank applicants
Many have privacy concerns.
Amazon offers US Prime Day shoppers $10 to install data-harvesting extension
If users interact with the Amazon Assistant extension, their browsing data is connected with their Amazon account.
What is Nimses and why is it a privacy nightmare?
Nimses has been in the news a lot this week as it attempts to crack the US market.
Facebook shares tank after leaked emails revealed Zuckerberg was aware of Facebook’s privacy crimes
The FTC specifically wants to know if Facebook violated a consent decree that it has agreed to follow way back in 2012.
Android apps with over 50M downloads were involved in adfraud and data harvesting
Now, what in the world does a flashlight need 31 authorizations for?