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FaceApp Russia: Here's what we know about the Russian company behind it - The Washington Post 20 July 2019

Goncharov told The Washington Post that FaceApp photos are stored on servers run by U.S. tech giants Amazon and Google and that the company does not share or sell data with third parties. But a Post analysis found data flowing to the third-party Facebook and Google trackers that many apps use for online ads, and […]

Israeli group’s spyware ‘offers keys to Big Tech’s cloud’ | Financial Times 20 July 2019

The new technique is said to copy the authentication keys of services such as Google Drive, Facebook Messenger and iCloud, among others, from an infected phone, allowing a separate server to then impersonate the phone, including its location. This grants open-ended access to the cloud data of those apps without “prompting 2-step verification or warning […]

This App Lets Your Instagram Followers Track Your Location | WIRED 20 July 2019

Users who download the app and grant it access to their Instagram account are presented with an eerie interactive map of every place the people they follow have visited and shared online since they created their profile. The map updates in real time and is sourced from the wealth of location data the average Instagram […]

My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users | Ars Technica 20 July 2019

DataSpii begins with browser extensions—available mostly for Chrome but in more limited cases for Firefox as well—that, by Google's account, had as many as 4.1 million users. These extensions collected the URLs, webpage titles, and in some cases the embedded hyperlinks of every page that the browser user visited. Most of these collected Web histories […]

FTC approves settlement with Google over YouTube kids privacy violations - The Washington Post 20 July 2019

The settlement — backed by the agency’s three Republicans and opposed by its two Democrats — finds that Google inadequately protected kids who used its video-streaming service and improperly collected their data in breach of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, which prohibits the tracking and targeting of users younger than 13, the […]

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